Loie Fuller was a famous dancer known by combination her choreography with silk costumes illuminated by multi-coloured lighting of her own design.Isadora remembers Loie in her memoirs with admiration,although she admitted that surroundings, in which she was during her time with Loie Fuller, was strange and, later, scared her to the death.
Loie in her autobioghraphy doesn't mention Isadora Duncan by name, but talks about her not very good things.
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Loie Fuller, c.1896. |
Here what she writes:
It happened in February, 1902. I arrived at Vienna with my Japanese company, headed by Sada Yacco. We had with us an artist to whom I had been delighted to be of service. In Paris my close friend, Madame Nevada, the celebrated American singer,had presented her to me, and the dancer had given me a performance as an example of her skill. She danced with remarkable grace, her body barely covered by the flimsiest of Greek costumes, and she bade fair to become somebody. Since then she has arrived. In her I saw the ancient tragic dances revived. I saw the Egyptian, Greek and Hindoo rhythms recalled.
