Amazing Women
who push the edge
and break the norms
DANCING DIVAS
DANCING DIVAS
Dance is a revolutionary act. The women featured here used it to transform the world. Here is the birth of modern and freestyle dance. Here is how dance changed everything and the women who are responsible.
FEATURED
ANNABELLE WHITFORD: THE SCANDALOUS “SHE WOULDN’T GIRL”
Imagine being a 17-year-old Burlesque dancer who introduces Americans to exotic dance and then created a national scandal by refusing to take her clothes off at a high society party. This is the remarkable story of Annabelle, the first movie star in a color movie produced by Thomas Edison.
DAISY PETERKIN, THE MASKED SUPERHERO
She was a world-class ballerina, known as the Le Domino Rouge, the Girl in the Red Mask,
who, for a time, never revealed her true identity. Le Domino Rouge was an international sensation, becoming a masked superhero when she saved a little girl from drowning.
More Dancing Divas
She was a world-class ballerina, known as the Le Domino Rouge, the Girl in the Red Mask, who, for a time, never revealed her identity. Le Domino Rouge was an international sensation, becoming a masked superhero when she saved a little girl from drowning.
Imagine being a 17-year-old Burlesque dancer who introduces Americans to exotic dance and then created a national scandal by refusing to take her clothes off at a high society party. This is the remarkable story of Annabelle, the first movie star in a color movie produced by Thomas Edison. The first Gibson Girl. The original Nell Brinkley Girl. And the personification of the Christy Girl. [1]
Ziegfeld Follies: The Girl in the Red Mask