Jerome Robbins Dance Division. It is said that Loie Fuller (1862-1928) created the Serpentine Dance for the Follies-Bergere in Paris, France in 1892. Born Marie Louise Fuller in 1862 in what is now Hinsdale, Illinois, Fuller first pursued acting as a teenager in Chicago. Dates / Origin Date Created: 1892 Library locations Jerome Robbins Dance Division Shelf locator: (S) *MGZMC-Res. Type of Resource. Loie Fuller - "Serpentine" dance. Permalink. Loie Fuller collection. Like many of her contemporaries, Isadora Duncan felt the draw of Europe and soon she left for London and then Paris where she first saw Loïe Fuller dance at the 1900 Universal Exposition. Eventually, she moved to New York City and found initial success with the Serpentine Dance, an act she developed from her role as a skirt dancer. Photographs "Serpentine Dance in Uncle Celestin" 1892. More Details Cite This Item Image ID 1990176. In 1891 she went on tour with a melodrama called "Quack MD," playing a character who performed a skirt dance while under hypnosis. The ‘Serpentine Dance’, by which she made the fabric swirl around her almost stationary figure, was just one of a dozen variants on the principle of a body consumed by movement. The Serpentine Dance was a frequent subject of early motion pictures, as it highlighted the new medium's ability to portray movement and light.Two particularly well-known versions were Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894), a performance by Broadway dancer Annabelle Whitford from Edison Studios, and a Lumière brothers film made in 1896. Born in Chicago in 1862, Loie Fuller began her stage career as a child actress. Loie Fuller (1862-1928) in Caprice, a play by Howard P. Taylor, staged at the Royal Globe Theatre in London in 1889 Louie Fuller watering flowers With her silk drapery, Fuller created her first “Serpentine Dance” that became a particular genre and was widely imitated. Loie Fuller was an American actress and dancer who was a pioneer of both modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques. Collection. Download Options. Fuller combined her choreography with silk costumes illuminated by multi-coloured lighting of her own design, and created the Serpentine Dance. Fuller’s serpentine motif is also visible in much of the decorative imagery of Art Nouveau. During her twenties, she performed as a skirt dancer on the burlesque circuit. Loie Fuller. Look at this Serpentine Dance in the new light of how she is grounded but also producing something even more spectacular than thought possible. Loie Fuller was thirty years old at the time and was more an actress than a dancer. Copy. 1892. Genre. Loie Fuller was always trying to say something in her dance. Loie Fuller - "Serpentine" dance. Date Created. Photographs. still image. Division. 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