The Dancer (2016)
Directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto

Film Synopsis

Who would have thought that Loie Fuller, a farm girl reared by an habitually drunken man in the American West, would one day become one of the most iconic dancers of the Belle Époque?  When her father is slain by lowlife the young woman gives up her farm life and travels to New York to be with her mother, a devout churchgoer.  It is in New York that Loie discovers she has a talent for dance.  For her first show, she wows her audience with a dress that she designed herself.  She is courted by Louis, an impoverished young nobleman, but deserts him so that she can travel to Paris.  Here she catches the eye of Édouard Marchand, the artistic director of the Folies Bergère.  With Marchand's encouragement, Loie Fuller becomes a dance sensation, and through a combination of hard work and slavish devotion to her art, she is soon feted as one of the greatest dancers of her generation.  But then her path crosses that of Isadora Duncan, an aspiring young performer whom she takes under her wing, not knowing that one day she shall steal her fame...