Gab Sorère

French art promoter, set designer, mechanical innovator, filmmaker and choreographer of the Belle Époque. Collaborating with her partner, Loïe Fuller, to explore illusion through luminescence, she produced films and choreographies which moved performance from dancers being lighted to the abstract vision of lights dancing. When Fuller died, Sorère inherited the dance troupe and laboratory of her partner and strove to keep her legacy as a visual effects artist alive. She continued to produce innovative productions utilizing fluorescence and light into the 1950s.

Bloch first saw Loïe Fuller perform at her Paris debut in 1892, when her mother took her to the performance. She was familiar with the women in Natalie Barney's and Gertrude Stein's salons, which included Romaine Brooks, Eileen Gray, and Marie-Louise Damien, a singer better known as Damia, but like Gray. After Fuller's death in 1928, Sorère became the partner of Damia.

Gab Sorère died on 28 December 1962 in Rambouillet at age 85.