Loie Fuller, also known as Louie Fuller and Loïe Fuller, was an American dancer and a pioneer of modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques.
Fuller in 1900
Portrait of Fuller by Frederick Glasier, 1902
Table lamp: Dance of the Lily (Loie Fuller) - around 1901-Gilt bronze-Museum Wiesbaden-Raoul Larche (1860-1912)
Fuller at the Folies Bergère, poster by PAL (Jean de Paléologue)
Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance which includes dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing; and primarily arose out of Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was considered to have been developed as a rejection of, or rebellion against, classical ballet, and also a way to express social concerns like socioeconomic and cultural factors.
Martha Graham in 1948
Isadora Duncan in 1903
Dancer at the Laban school, Berlin 1929
Martha Graham and Bertram Ross in 1961; photo by Carl van Vechten