Skirt dance

A skirt dance is a form of dance popular in Europe and the United States, particularly in burlesque and vaudeville theater of the 1890s, in which women dancers would manipulate long, layered skirts with their arms to create a motion of flowing fabric,[1] often in a darkened theater with colored light projectors highlighting the patterns of their skirts. Skirts used in skirt dances reportedly were constructed from over 100 yards of fabric.[2][3]

  1. ^ Cooper Albright, Ann (2007). Traces of light: absence and presence in the work of Loïe Fuller. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-6843-4.
  2. ^ "The Skirt Dance". Scientific American. June 20, 1896.
  3. ^ "The Skirt Dance". Werner's magazine. March–August 1900. p. 583.