What is Loie Fuller?
[[File:Cheret, Jules - La Loie Fuller (pl 73).jpg|thumb|250px|Poster showing Loïe Fuller at the ''Folies Bergères'' by [[Jules Chéret]]]] [[Image:Koloman Moser 003.jpg|thumb|300px|Fuller depicted by [[Koloman Moser]] (1901)]] [[File:Loie Fuller.jpg|thumb|300px|Portrait of Loïe Fuller, by Frederick Glasier, 1902]] [[Image:Toulouse Lautrec - Loie Fuller 01.jpg|thumb|180px|Fuller painted by [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Toulouse-Lautrec]]]] [[File:Loie Fuller portrait.jpg|thumb|180px|Loie Fuller]] '''Loie (or '''Loïe''') Fuller''' (January 15, 1862 &ndash; January 1, 1928) was a pioneer of [[modern dance]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xIoXAAAAYAAJ&q=hallen&pg=PA95 Who's Who on the Stage: Volume 1 1910, pg.102 edited by Walter Browne, Frederick Arnold Austin]</ref> She had no dance training, but got experience acting on the [[Stage (theatre)|stage]]. A chance experiment with an over-long [[skirt]] gave her ideas which she eventually developed into a dance.<ref>Craine, Debra & Mackrell, Judith. 2000. ''The Oxford dictionary of dance''. Oxford University Press, p194.</ref> ==Career== Fuller was born '''Marie Louise Fuller''' in the [[Chicago]] suburb of Fullersburg (now [[Hinsdale]], [[Illinois]]). She began her theatrical career as a professional child actress and later [[choreography|choreographed]] and performed dances in [[burlesque]] (as a skirt dancer), [[vaudeville]], and [[circus]] shows. Fuller developed her own natural movement and [[improvisation]] techniques. Fuller combined her choreography with [[silk]] costumes seen by multi-coloured lighting of her own design.<ref>Richard Nelson Current and Marcia Ewing Current, ''Loie Fuller: goddess of light'', Northeastern Univ Press, May 1997, {{ISBN|1-55553-309-4}}.</ref><ref>Giovanni Lista, ''Loïe Fuller, danseuse de la Belle Epoque'', Hermann (Paris 2006), {{ISBN|2-7056-6625-7}} (in French).</ref> Although Fuller became famous in America through works such as ''Serpentine Dance'' (1891), she felt that she was not taken seriously by the public. Her w