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"Loïe Fuller, born Marie Louise Fuller ... was a dancer, choreographer, lighting technician. researcher, inventor of special stage effects, art curator, filmmaker, member of the French Astronomical Society and businesswoman. Moreover, from a very young age she was also a living legend; she was hailed as the muse of Art Nouveau and in 1900 had her own pavilion, designed by Henri Sauvage, at ... the World's Fair in Paris. Admired by Stéphane Mallarmé, Auguste Rodin, Arthur Symons, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Koloman Moser, Pierre Roche, Raoul Larche, Théodore Rivière, Jules Chéret, Umberto Bpccioni. Giacomo Balla and Anton Pevsner, among many others, Fuller exercised an enormous influence on the artists of her day"--Publisher's description.