Loie Fuller’s Fire Dance - DVD, 2003

Reconstruction and performance by Jessica Lindberg

Lighting design by Megan Slayter

Music: Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner

Camera and Editing by Shawn Hove

Produced by John Mueller

Loie Fuller (1862-1928) was an American actress who soon realized she had a gift for dancing with fabric and colored lights. She took her act to Paris in 1892 where she quickly became a sensation and an icon of the Art Nouveau movement. Her famous Fire Dance, first performed in 1896, was a turning point in Fuller’s career as well as in the development of Modern Dance. It not only advanced her application of technical devices such as electric lights, but also helped expand the idea of dance as abstract or natural movement. The reconstruction of this dance is based on critical reviews, paintings, drawings, lithographs, photographs, motion picture footage, sculptures, and Fuller’s own words with the goal of being as true to the original as possible.

The DVD includes:

• Studio performance
• Studio performance with audio commentary by Jessica Lindberg and Megan Slayter Studio performance edited from several camera angles by Shawn Hove
• Studio performance accompanied by the notated score by Jessica Lindberg
• Live performance recorded from two camera angles accessible using the angle button Documentaries: Loie
• Fuller: Her life and art
• Reconstructing Fire Dance
• Films of Loie Fuller and her imitators
  
  • Loie Fuller (1905)
  • Ameta (1903)
  • Annabella (1897)
  • Crissie Sheridan (1897)

Available through Dance Film Archive

Loie Fuller In the Light Fantastic — DVD, 2008 (Up-Coming)

The first full-length film biography of the modern dance pioneer, Loie Fuller

 

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