The Chicago vaudeville dancer who became the goddess of the French Belle Epoque.
This would be a cool top-end steampunk performance if you could find a real dancer and some guys to handle Loie's patented colored high-tech-for-1908 stage limelights.
Another Loie tribute. Check out the gorgeous duds on that historical-recreationist audience.
This isn't so much steampunk as steamaristocracy.
Sounds like they miraculously rehearsed the orchestra to play as clumsily as real 19th century orchestras actually played.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/musdivid/013.mpg
"Choreographed by Elizabeth Aldrich and Jody Sperling. Performed by Jody Sperling. The Great Hall, The Library of Congress, 15 October 1997. Music: Themes from Grosse Fantasia aus Richard Wagner's "Die Walküre" arranged by Arthur Seidel, orchestrated for brass band by Robert Sheldon. Played by members of The Library of Congress Centennial Cotillion Brass Band, Emerson Head and Robert Sheldon, Leaders. (Members, Metro Washington D.C. Federation of Musicians Local 161-710, AFM)"
