Loie Fuller

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This paper discusses the art of dancer Loie Fuller and her illustrious career as a dancer. It looks at Fuller's unique contribution to dance as an innovative blend of the artistic and the scientific. The paper contends that although her dances cannot compare on a technical level with the kinds of special effects that even a straight-to-video movie has today, she is in many ways directly responsible for what we see on both stage and screen.

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"Loie Fuller was not a great dancer. Although she studied dance as a child she quickly gave up on the lessons because she found them too difficult. But this did not stop her from having an illustrious career as a dancer because Fuller did have something wondrous to offer her audiences which was a unique and innovative blend of the artistic and the scientific. Although her dances in which she was partnered with the magic of early electrical lighting cannot compare on a technical level ..."

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