Here’s a fun interview I did with Inside Edition when “Radiant” came out. The video includes lots of great photos and I brought out my own miniscule piece of radium, in an antique spinthariscope, and demonstrated how uranium glass glows under black light! Watch the segment by clicking here.
April 1892
In April of 1892, Loie Fuller had begun performing her original Serpentine Dance at theaters all over New York City, including Madison Square Theater(New York Hoyt’s company), Palmer’s Theater and Madison Square Garden Concert Hall. By the end of the month, she’d added a flower dance to her repertoire. Unfortunately, her unique dance was so …
When Loïe Met Marie: Marie Curie and Loïe Fuller’s Documented Interactions
Because I wanted Radiant- The Dancer, The Scientist and a Friendship Forged in Light to read like a novel, I decided to forgo footnotes and place my sources in an extensive bibliography at the end of the book. To make it easier to locate primary documents specifically related to interactions between Marie Curie and Loïe …