Little Egypt Dances for Edison (1896)

Little Egypt Dances for Edison (1896). Fatima Djemille (1890-3/14/1921) appeared at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. It is said but not confirmed that this Fatima was the subject of two early films, Edison’s Coochee Coochee Dance (1896) and Fatima (1897). performed at Coney Island for many years. “La danse du ventre“ (basically meaning belly dance in French) and in Turkish it’s called Oryantal Tansi (again, Oriental Dance.) Early Americans called it “The Abdomen Dance“ or “Stomach Dance.“ Finally most peo