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Rivière  took advantage of the relatively new art of photography to make it, using reference photographs which he took of her dancing in a park in Paris in 1896. \r\n\r\nLoïe Fuller made her Paris début at the Folies Bergères in 1893, performing the Serpent Dance, the Violet Dance, the Butterfly Dance and the White Dance - abstract dances which had made her famous in New York as an 'artistic, scientific and revolutionary spectacle'.  Her dances depended on the changing effects of coloured spotlights on the white drapery which she formed into flowing shapes as she danced, sometimes by manipulating long batons attached to the fabric. The French poster artist Jules Chéret created his first poster for her in four colour combinations to reflect the various lighting effects of each dance. Modern audiences are so used to sophisticated theatre lighting that it is easy to underestimate the spectacular and revolutionary effect of Loïe Fuller's lighting to audiences of the 1890s, barely a decade after electric lighting was first used in the theatre.  Loïe 'the triumph of electricity', was lit by spotlights from above, below, and behind.","physicalDescription":"Sculpture of Loie Fuller performing a dance enveloped in material. Her right hand is held up in the air holding some fabric across her face, her head is leaning towards her right arm, her left arm is held out behind her. She wears long flowing robes and has her right foot behind her, with the toes touching the ground, the left foot in front of her flat on the ground.  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