SERPENTINE DANCE

A “Skirt Dance” (a popular vaudeville attraction) performed by Annabelle Moore.

This film was shown at Wellington’s first public screening of motion pictures, held at the Exchange Hall, 28 October 1896.

“But the palm among the pictures must be accorded to a skirt dance..., the limelight effects of which were beautifully rendered, while the grace of the evolutions far exceeded any dancing we have seen in New Zealand.” (Evening Post, 29 October, 1896)