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Loie Fuller

Stage Name

Birth Name

Loie Fuller Mary Louise Fuller

    Loie Fuller was born in a saloon in Illinois. Loie began her career as a Child Temperance lecturer. At a young age she would take a few dance lessons but gave them up because they were to difficult. Around 1883, she would be acting on Broadway Stages and by 1889 had already formed her own company of young women dancers... (Loie Fuller and her Muses). Moving to Paris and performing her famous Serpentine dance at the Follies-Bergère in 1892.

    She would be known as the 'Butterfly Girl' and invent the 'Serpentine Dance' which she Patented and presented it in New York at the Folies Bergère on February of 1892. Loïe Fullerwas thirty years old at the time and was more an actress than a dancer. Her La Danse de Feu dance was not really a dance, but the audience mistook it as one. She would create many versions of these dances over time.

    Loïe worked in Burlesque and Vaudeville as a dancer at the time and her Serpentine invention was due to a "prop. (see Serpentine dance for more info) These dances were imaginative with lights and fabrics (scarfs) and made

Loie Fuller Autograph
  pioneering achievements with lighting in films as well as educating artists who studied her dance for movements through colors. Fuller had a school and a dance troupe (1908 - the Muses), where she taught her own movements and improvisational techniques.

    Loie Fuller and her Muses would travel all of Europe, Paris and America performing. For a period of time she traveled with the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and even had a theatre named after her at the Paris Expo of 1900.

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

Fullersburg, Illinois 1862 - 1928 Gabrielle Bloch. n/a
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Night Clubs

Dance Partners

Sheet

Music Titles

Folies Bergère* (1892) 1902 - Isadora Duncan 1893 - La femme à la robe
        Gertrud Von Axen 1902 - Loie Fuller Waltz
        Dick Fuller 1907 - Salome
        Le Danse de Feu (Orig Serpentine Song)
        $ Ride of the Valkyries
 

Dances

Theaters

Stage

c.1892 - Serpentine Dance 1909/10 - Met. Opera House 1892 - Quack MD (skirt)
c.1892/3 - Fire Dance* 1910 - Jordan Hall 1895 - Salome
c.1895 - Lilly Dance 7/1915 - Mason Opera House 1900 - Paris Universal Exposition
c.1896 - La Danse Blanche 1895- Comedie Parisienne 1906 - Kiel Concert
c.1896 - Salome 1915 - Oakland Auditorium 1915 - Panama Pacific Int'l. Expo
c.1898 - Butterfly Dance 1915 - Grand Casino 1920 - Lys de La Vie
c.1901 - Blind Dance 1921 - Gaumont Palace 1927 - Shadow Ballet (last perf)
c.1901 - La Danse Martyrs 1922 - Casino d'Arcachon      
c.1901 - Mad Dance 1922 - Casino de Fleurs -vichy      
c.1907 - Dance of the Eyes 1922 - Casino de Paramé

Posters

Ballroom (Modern Dancing) 1922 - Coliseum, London la Loie Fuller - aux Folies Bergere
Ballet 1922 - Gran Casino de San Sebastian la Loie Fuller - Aux Folies Bergere (Bac)
La Danse de Feu
Scarf Dance 1922 - Théâtre Lumen Casino de Paris (Gertrude Hoffmann)
  1922 - Théâtre du Castillé Loie Fuller Poster
      1922 - Théâtre du Grand Cercle Loie Fuller (Giclee Reproduction)
      1922 - Théâtre Municipal d'Orleans Loie Fuller (by Grun)
      1923 - Alhambra, London Loie Fuller Folies Bergere 1 (by Cherot)
      1923 - Casino - d'Hendaye Loie Fuller Folies Bergere 2 (by Bac)
      1923 - Scala d'Anvers Loie Fuller Folies Bergere 3 (by Pal)
      1926 - Scala Varieties Loie Fuller Folies Bergere 4 (by Pal)
        Loie Fuller Folies Bergere 5 (unk)
        Loie Fuller Follies Bergere (unk)
        Loie Fuller Marquette (by Cherot)
        Loie Fuller - Tours les soirs (by Pal)
        Salome (Defeure)
        1927 Loie Fuller Poster (Paul Colin)
 

Films

(Other)

$1906 - What's New 1908 - Quinze Ans de ma (bio)
1985 - That's Dancing 1913 - Fifteen years of a dancer's life
$ 1994 - Landmarks of Early Film, Vol. 1 [DVD] 7/1929 - Dance Magazine
$ The Movies Begin Volume 1 3/1942 - Dance Index Magazine
$ The Movies Begin: Early Cinema [DVD] $Loiè Fuller : getanzter Jugendstil (book)
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