A Nymph of the Waves [1903]

Superimposition of a woman dancing over footage of crashing waves from the rapids of Niagara Falls. The woman wears a frilly, perhaps feather-trimmed, white dress with a low-cut bodice, a matching feathered hat, white stockings, and white ballet slippers. She holds up her skirt through the entire dance, revealing her ankles and lower legs as well as a flash of a garter above the knee on her left leg. Her movements appear to be a mixture of ballet and variety-style dancing such as a cancan, including spins and toesteps on pointe. She closes with a flourish of her skirt as she executes a curtsy on pointe with one foot.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• ballet
• dancing
• ballerina
• niagara
• falls
• vaudeville

[ziggycat999]

Historic interesting but I really don't see a "crashing waves of Niagara Falls".