Loïe Fuller

A colorful serpentine dance.

As danced by Loie Fuller. A very artistic and interesting film. The dance is executed with the famous ten-yard skirts invented for the wonderful fire dance which had such a phenomenal run at Koster and Bial's, New York City. This is the most suitable film for coloring, and when colored it produces all the wonderful effects that are seen in the original fire dance. (imdb)

On the DVD collection of preserved films called "Saved from the Flames", there are a couple of shorts that depict entertainers. One featured a woman, a Mme. Ondine, who performs the Serpentine Dance that was made famous by Loie Fuller. Ondine performs this in a cage with a couple of tigers who were just trained by a male ringleader just a couple of minutes before! (imdb)

A bat turns into a woman who then performs a serpentine dance.

Six films by photographer Paul Nadar in 1896 were combined into a program in 1970 by the Cinemathèque Francaise. It contains four dance routines and two Paris-based actualities. (imdb)