Angelic and demonic serpentine dance from dawn of cinema. Hand-colored frame by frame. Lumière no. 765 or 765.1 (colorized, different dancer?).

Loïe Fuller performs a serpentine dance.

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of the flowing cloth. She moves to her right and left across an unadorned stage. Many of the prints were distributed in hand-tinted color.

1900 Gaumont version of the ubiquitous Serpentine dance, this one hand tinted. Filmmaker anonymous.

Lina Esbrard performs a serpentine dance.

We get scenery, with a fiddler playing as 18th century patrons do a minuet; we get some Méliès moments as the devil appears, makes the dancers vanish and takes the fiddler to pandemonium, where they produce an entire corps de ballet doing the serpentine dance.

1897 version of Annabelle Moore performing a serpentine dance.

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

A canine serpentine dance.

A Serpentine dance performance, possibly featuring Loie Fuller (though the record is unclear). While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around the same time

Hand-color. Silent. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/301943

A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and feet appear to be bare. (Library of Congress)