# PTE Reading MCM #19: Loie Fuller's Stage...

Reading: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers #19 - Level 3 - Feeds Reading

> Read the text and answer the question by choosing all the options that are correct. More than one answer is correct, and a wrong choice costs a point.

Fuller had scientific leanings and constantly experimented with electrical lighting (which was then in its infancy), colored gels, slide projections, and other aspects of stage technology. She invented and patented special arrangements of mirrors and concocted chemical dyes for her draperies. Her interest in color and light paralleled the research of several artists of the period, notably the painter Seurat, famed for his Pointillist technique of creating a sense of shapes and light on canvas by applying extremely small dots of color rather than by painting lines. One of Fuller's major inventions was under lighting, in which she stood on a pane of frosted glass illuminated from underneath. This was particularly effective in her Fire Dance (1895), performed to the music of Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." The dance caught the eye of artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who depicted it in a lithograph.

According to the paragraph, Fuller's Fire Dance was notable in part for its

- use of colored gels to illuminate glass
- use of dyes and paints to create an image of fire
- performance with music of Richard Wagner
- technique of lighting the dancer from beneath
- draperies with small dots resembling the Pointillist technique of Seurat

## Answer

- performance with music of Richard Wagner
- technique of lighting the dancer from beneath

## Explanation

The passage explicitly links the performer's work to the specified composer and describes the unique floor-based illumination method used during her act.

What to watch: The text links the Fire Dance to "under lighting" on frosted glass "illuminated from underneath" and to Wagner's music. Colored gels appear only in her general experiments, not in this dance. Dyes were for her draperies, and the Seurat comparison is about color and light, not her costumes.

## Hints

- Focus on the specific technical inventions mentioned in the middle of the text.
- Check the final sentences for mentions of musical accompaniment and artistic recognition.

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