Here's a 19th century film clip from Edison studios in it a young dancer named Ella Lola performs a period "Oriental" dance (commonly known as a belly dance) with some Turkish styling. She performs distinctive  hoochie coochie dance movements that include shoulder shimmies with pelvic movements and several foot patterns, side traveling movements with pelvic circles, a slow pelvic circle and a front pelvic lock, and paddle turns with various arm gestures. Her dance costume consists of a two-layered skirt to the knee, a hip belt with fringe, a chemise-like shirt under a fitted vest, several layers of necklaces and front decoration, white stockings, white--perhaps ballet--shoes, and a glittering fitted cap.

Background on the dancer provided by dance ethnologist Michelle Forner, 5/22/96. From the New York clipper, 4/19/02, p. 167: Ella Lola was born Sept. 2, 1883, in Boston, and made her first appearance as a dancer at the age of eleven years, and by her clever work has steadily come to the fore, until now she takes rank among the best in her class. She has been featured at various times with road companies, and has met with success at the leading vaudeville houses through the country.

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Apparently filmed in Thomas Edison's "Black Maria" studio in West Orange, New Jersey in 1898.

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