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Loie Fuller: Serpentine Dance 1892
Its interesting that the innovations of motion-pictures, animation and modern dance are really coeval - emerging in the same decades - 1890-1910. Authors like Natasha Staller have noted the influence of early cinema and motion pictures on Picasso and Braque - who were regular cinema-goers in the first decade of the 20th century - and how this impacted on the development of Cubism. (Read: Natasha Staller: The Sum of Destructions - Picasso’s Cultures and the Creation of Cubism: 1994. andJohn Berger: The Success and Failure of Picasso: 1965. and Robert Hughes: The Shock of the New - Art and the Century of Change 1980. and Lynda Nead: The Haunted Gallery - Painting, Photography and Film c1900 2007.
Loie Fuller, with her mix of modern freeform dance, and her appreciation of and homage to l’Art Nouveau style, captured a new audience for dance at the Folies Bergère in the 1890s.