Danse Serpentine - Loie Fuller

[kaltemuschi72]

War das ihr Tanz mit dem phosphorizierendem Kleid (radioaktiv)? Man beachte die weißen Punkte im Filmmaterial (Strahlung?).

[derekxl]

Am I the only one to think that it looks...strangely like a vagina? I find the representation of a giant vagina a little bit revolting...

[BornOfRoyalBlood]

The way she moves that dress around makes me think this was part of what inspired Madonna's music video for "frozen."

[Malkmusianful]

greatest movie 2011

[rodcarrero]

The power of the color & movement in our minds

[y0dalay]

this is dope. i saw an illustrated picture about her work in my dance class and had to come home to look at the video.

[tregibbs]

Somebody needs to switch to decaf....

[Eggxactly]

It looks like one of those exotic fish or displaying birds or jelly fish - lovely!!

[Erunokabe]

@Eggxactly lovely indeed:)

[dw070]

why couldn't video have gone forever?

[gladdenpaul]

I brcmano, amazing post.  can I use part of this clip for a documentary about Fuller's life that I'm making? Where can I download?

[honestnick]

She's really Fuller herself.

[kdoyle424]

"This 1896 Lumière Brothers film captures a performance of Loïe Fuller’s 'Serpentine Dance.' No, there was no LSD in the 1890′s, but yes, there were colorized films. In the technique used above, each frame was individually hand-tinted using stencils and colored dyes. It was a laborious, manual process, and it was first employed to recreate Loïe Fuller’s stage magic; acclaimed for its early use of chromatic theatrical lights that illuminated the dancer’s flowing white silk."

[jewlover131]

It's just light affect. Loie Fuller liked expirementing with this stuff, and her costume is just like a table cloth, but with sticks controlling the arms.

[ghadastique]

It's fun if you push "pause" a lot, each time you get a new wonderful shape

[Synapsenkitzler]

hmm FAKE ?

1896 youtube didn´t exist.

[MrGustavociriaco]

if it thomas edison's film, it's not Loie Fuller dancing it herself, but an imitator, a wonderful one. And it was Mrs, Kuhn, Edison's secretary who painted frame by frame the original Black and white photograms.

And with fuller, the technique was in how you did it to produce certain images. it s beyond the body as image maker. but all this with her pioneer use of scenic light and cloth and sticks. I am a fan. :) The power of ideas and practice. thanks for postimg teh video, by the way.

[xmad4chocol8x]

It's like a rainbow..but ofc it's been edited.

[Keegant27]

How the hell is this video in color if it was recorded in 1896 -_-"

[ChrisGnosis]

@Keegant27

Hand painted color film, however this video is eith digitally enhanced or this is one of the most well preserved examples I've ever seen.

But yeah a workhouse full of usually women would sit down and hand paint each section of film with a tiny brush

[MrDubEdition]

I can't seem to get the sound to play on this video : (

[DerpDerp4]

I managed to fap to this.

[IStevieI]

obviously a witch

[MarkedUno]

color in 1896?

[Maysamshowrink]

حلو

[TaffiHawthorn]

HOW? hoe does she make it?

I guess it`s another secret, like Aster`s stick.

[stealthtank91]

@eGitarre1984 you're just stoned.

[eGitarre1984]

is her clothes changing colors? oO or am i just stoned?

[anothersaab]

@eGitarre1984 dude, this is in black and white. not sure what colors you were seeing. baker.

[chrystianons]

Uiaaaa! Então já existiam WaveFlaggers há muuuuitos anos atrás O_O

[YasminPaella]

this is so incredibly! i can't stop watching it. Does anyone know how I could create an effect like this? Either using film or digitally? Please please contact me if you have any information!

[remondo]

@YasminPaella Lights, Camera, LSD

[54alysonpacheco22]

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[DemoniusFR]

5 peoples can't loves art

[Brentt2]

This was filmed in 1896 by the Lumiere brothers. They hand painted each frame of the film to achieve the changing hues. Thanks for posting. I was reading about this in Time magazine's "100 Events That Changed The World" and it was amazing to see.

[YasminPaella]

@Brentt2 do you know much more about the hand-painting technique? i'm interested in doing something like this for a uni project. I'd love to know more! It reminds me of Ellen Rogers' photography.

[melissadamelio]

So beautiful.

[mecrnc]

This is absolutely NOT Loie Fuller. It is her style of dancing, but the performer is an imitator, despite what the LC may claim. The same mistake was made with a film of "Loie," part of a major Art Nouveau exhibit, several years ago at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It too was footage of a Loie imitator. I have looked at hundreds of photographs of the real Loie and neither film is of her.

[LockDOTspot]

she may not be a great dancer but she is definitely an artist.

[globalSoulutions]

backwards & in heels too!

[globalSoulutions]

backwards & in heels too!

[TheAuntVera]

It reminds of a flower being blown through the wind:)

[SoleilAndalou]

C'est extraordinaire, ça donne le tourni, ce que j'aime, c'est la mise en couleurs, pas de son, c'est normal, c'était l'époque du muet, mais sur la danse du feu, ça n'aurait pas été mal. Je donne mon idée au cas où ...

Merci pour cette création et merci à Joe pour le partage.

[xanglat]

Grand MERCI pour le partage de cette somptueuse archive magnifiée !

DIVIN

[alipeace111]

What an astonishing dancer! My mouth literally dropped!

[apsara1234]

In her show she used 16 electricians who switched color lights by her signs. Can you imagine how to dance with her huge wings and to conduct 16 electricians? When I am dancing with wings, I can't even think to give any sign to someone. Also we do not hear original music. Also movie was made in different speed. Those effects decrease quality of dance. Even dull screen of monitor lowered amasing effect

I'm very happy that Edison filmed her & the movie survived & we can see her dance...

Thanks!

[leliagostinho]

WOW! this is amazing! :)

[kittykat12211]

i dont understand how it changes colors like that

[IlhasDeBrincar]

@kittykat12211 , in the original show, she used different coloured lights to make some colour effects. But at this time, they couldn't catch colours on film. So they filmed it black and white and then they painted it frame by frame, making the colours to change smoothly, trying to recreate the lightning effects.

[Jeannemare]

Quote from the biography "Big Alma" (Spreckels) by Bernice Scharlack: Loie, a truly liberated woman, an anachronism in the age of Queen Victoria...invented modern dance...Isadora Duncan, famous San Francisco expatriate, joined her troupe for a time, but later wrote that Loie's entourage of "beautiful but demented ladies" became too much of her. Loie, la fée lumineuse!

[Zeobit]

I just want to point out that this film was colored by hand! Frame by frame!!!

[planetrics]

wow did it have LEDs on the material that it changes the colour?

[theblueberrybread]

she is amazing... this is lovely

[rappell11]

all flash--no substance

[TenderAtmosFera]

She actually didn't have technique..But that's the point! She was creating with her emotions!That was real her, and it is beatiful!:o)))Thank you so much for this video...

[klausette]

WANT!

[talou3]

it's amazing !!

[bgirlYAYA]

I this really Fuller herself, or one of the many imitators of 'La Loïe'?

[brcmano]

This is Loie Fuller, according to the Library of Congress

[kintenkinten]

@brcmano It's an unknown dancer. Film by the Lumière brothers. Look it up.

[MsCuntish]

@bgirlYAYA This is not Loïe Fuller, but one of many imitators, as you said. There sadly isn't a recorded 'film' of Fuller herself.

[Pearlandvb]

She was the first to use electricity to produce light-effects on stage, the book says. To my very untrained eye, she's not much of a dancer, is she? Was it all just about the novelty of colored lights?

[brcmano]

Yeah, normally she's not regarded as a great dancer, but a pionner.

And one of the things that shows she wasn't a great dancer is that she was soon followed by a countless numbers of imitators, like Gabrielle.

[Ajaggedpanther]

how does being followed by imitators imply she was a poor dancer? she wasn't good, ergo people copied her? that doesn't make any sense. she certainly wasn't technically trained in dance, she was a chemist... but that doesn't take away from the uniqueness or difficulty of her style

[brcmano]

Well, in the world of art eventually a good technique make difficult that other people copies you. And if she had any great dancing skills it would be hard for anyone to appear and perfectly copy her style. So I conclude that she wasn't a great dancer, and one of the reasons I see for that is that she was easily copied. I didn't said that her dancing was bad, but it obviously don't have a mesmerizing technique.

[pcampbell0]

@brcmano that is still a poor argument, that because she can be easily copied, that she should not be considered a great dancer!

[MonkeySoup4all]

@brcmano I agree, and disagree. I think she's not a great dancer... but I think you also probably have to properly define what 'a great dancer' means in order to properly deal with the issue. She's not a fantastic technical dancer like most ballet superstars, but she is a pioneer of modernism, or choosing to focus on light and how the body as a performer can move, rather than going for something that's technically difficult. But then again this is only one example. She's beautiful tho :)

[mitsuko2046]

@Ajaggedpanther

I agree.

[apsara1234]

@Ajaggedpanther

She was not a chemist. She was an actress.

[HOMEnHIGH]

@apsara1234 .......they wanna turn that stage fan off...i can hardly see whats goin on with her dress blowing about like that.....awful..

[vickytampon]

@brcmano she certainly is a pionner and that is what she should be remember for-

Who cares about her technique if she was into something else that drained numbers of imitators- Isn't imitation the strongest celebration of succes ?

[vickytampon]

@brcmano

[redelementfreak4evr]

Again the use of this technique in this video was brilliant because it uses the movement of the dancer (or Profilmic movement) to its advantage by using the dress to opaque and hides the colors of the edges, head and boots, and successfully creates the illusion of color.

[redelementfreak4evr]

The last and hardest place to see the original B and W colors are at her feet. If you hadnt noticed the dancer is wearing boots and every-time they show they are white also the whole time. This one is the trickiest to see for 2 reasons: one the dress literally covers the boots almost the whole way; second the paint used to color the dress often drags into the boots (and you will see in some parts that the top of the boots are the same color as the dress).

[redelementfreak4evr]

The other place where you can see this color effect is actually in her face. Again if you slow the video down or tap the Play and Pause button the whole way, you will see how her face and neck are pale white. This one is a bit catchy and hard to see because the dress is in the way most of the time. This also tells us that the stage had a lot of lighting because there is no shadow on her face every-time she lifts up the dress.

[redelementfreak4evr]

The funny thing about this is, you wouldnt even need to know anything about this clip to tell the difference between color cinema and the old black and white cinema, is simple.If you look closely youll see the black and white colors are shown.The easiest place you can see it is in the edges of the dress.Although the dress goes through a lot of color changes, you can see that the edges are white the whole time.If you slow down the video or tap the play and pause key you can easily see it

[redelementfreak4evr]

I have to say that the technique of painting the images was brilliant at the moment. It actually gives the illusion of color movies at such an early stage of film. We see the dress, the background, the stage and it even looks like they painted her hair. Very good technique.

To an untrained eye, this would look like a Photoshop effect where the scene was filmed with any regular video camera then passed through a filter that would make it look in the old type of film.

[passionofpersephone]

Anybody know where I could get instructions to make a replica of this costume?

[Primsong]

Fascinating to see the 'orginal' innovator for this style of dancing, that we *have* a recording to watch her at all amazes me. True, she didn't take it very far, but she did point the way to others who later did beautiful things with the effect. Thank you for posting this.

[pattysue4]

Way cool. She died in Paris in 1928. Thanks for posting this.

[pludunka]

Thats not Loie...videos were not that well done, anf very rarely done. It appears to be a dancer who has been photoshopped with the color and with 'old film' placed onto it.

[brcmano]

This is Loie Fuller, she has been recorded in black and white, and later painted by hand. I've taken this footage from the Library of Congress, unless you think that the American Congress are all liars, this is true. There is no conspiration against Loie Fuller going on.

[ariesorbiter]

No mention this colored pictured was trying to "recreate" the real effects in the Loie's performance: Her dance was enhanced with colored spotlight hitting her white gowns... Seems she created that device specially for her dance serpentine...

[Gkiller]

reading about her in my cultural dance class book, wow they made it seem so badass, and guess what it was, or is for that matter.

[brcmano]

Loie Fuller's problem was that she had ONCE a great idea, twirling around with music and lights, but then she reused this idea without any innovation or anything, making her boring and less artistic in a way.

[lynemichelle]

She ONCE had a great idea, and113 years later people are still talking about it. Not bad.

[brcmano]

Well, people often talk about her in a ironic way. She is seem as a kind of vaudeville artist, with a little more talent, so that's maybe why people still talk about her, but not as other innovaters of those times, like Nijinsky and Duncan.

[candyluver27]

i just studied her in school just like i studied Duncan so i wouldnt say that.

[Jane1620]

My paternal great great grandmother Harriet Fuller Cook was an Aunt to Loie Fuller's father .Harriet and Jacob Fuller(Loie Fuller's grandfather)were brother and sister

[melvastico]

I love this image. It's beautiful!!!

[websitess]

Thanx for posting!!!! she was AWESOME!!!!

[hartnell114]

not loie

[katerinavander]

How amazing to see something this old - she was really advanced in her use of costume - precious!