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'She Walks Like A Bird, But That Bird Is A Duck' " Loie Fuller, The Unlikely Dance Superstar Of Fin-De-Siècle Paris by Artsjournal1

Offstage, she was a dumpy little frump of a Midwestern girl who lived openly with her mother and her female lover. Onstage, she was "la fée éléctricité," who manipulated with sewn-in rods a gown made of massive lengths of white silk to create natural images and fantastical shapes under rotating colored spotlights " an act […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM on November 15, 2019

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