Loie Fuller Butterfly Dance

Loie fuller the butterfly dance american loie fuller 1862 1928 was a solo dancer who had no formal training but is recognised as being an important element in the development of modern dance.

Loie fuller butterfly dance. 1906 film of loie fuller played too fast. Discussion of skirt dancing spectacle italian ballet commedia dell arte with a demonstration and an old melies film. Fuller combined her choreography with silk costumes illuminated by multi coloured lighting. Completed as part of lindberg s master s thesis at ohio state university in 2003.

The sinuous female figure of fuller then dancing swathed in yards of voluminous silk creating organic shapes based on butterflies and flowers was the perfect embodiment of the art nouveau style. Dance film archive columbus ohio reconstruction of the fire dance 1896 a groundbreaking dance work created and performed by american actress loïe fuller who became noted for her innovations in the use of electric lighting in. Excerpt from robert cohan s draped khomsin as danced by london contemporary dance theater. She was flitting across the stage in a hypnotic trance enveloped in a loose pongee silk robe flailing her draped arms up and down when someone in the audience yelled a butterfly.

Jessica lindberg s reconstruction of loie fuller s 1896 fire dance. Get this from a library. Loie fuller also known as louie fuller and loïe fuller was an american actress and dancer who was a pioneer of both modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques. Loie fuller original name marie louise fuller born jan.

An early free dance practitioner fuller developed her own natural movement and improvisation techniques. 1 1928 paris france american dancer who achieved international distinction for her innovations in theatrical lighting as well as for her invention of the serpentine dance a striking variation on the popular skirt dances of the day. 15 1862 fullersburg now part of hinsdale ill u s died jan.