LEEUWARDEN, NETHERLANDS (AFP) - She scandalised society by dancing almost naked when women still wore corsets and their dresses long. Yet a century after her death, Mata Hari remains veiled in ...

Mata Hari's first goal in the demo is to convince a dance manager that she is not merely a prostitute from the streets but a high-class dancer, and the way to do that is to get one of the characters ...

Calling upon the dance skills she had learned in Java, the newly restyled Mata Hari became a performer, starting with the circus and eventually working her way up to exotic dancer.

Mata Hari was highly paid for her dancing, but entirely profligate in her spending. She gave a series of performances at the Olympia in Paris in autumn 1906, for a fee of 10,000 FF ($50,000 today).

The fact-based historical series will focus on Mata Hari, the Dutch woman, who was known for her exotic dance routine, notorious lifestyle, and who was executed as a spy a century ago.

This was Mata Hari’s ‘Brahmanic Dance’ and it was anything but. Even strip-tease passed for spiritual in the early 1900s when everything Indian was mystical and magical for a war-ravaged Europe.

Houston author Michelle Moran, internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Rebel Queen, will discuss and sign copies of her new novel, Mata Hari's Last Dance. Moran brings her talent for ...