Lea Niako
German dancer and actress · Germany · On the map · Actors · Lived 1908 to 1996 · aged 87
Maria Kruse (1908-?), better known by her stage name Lea Niako, was a German exotic dancer and actress. Niako was renowned across Europe for her dance performances in the late interwar period, from 1926 to 1933.
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![Niako, in Das Leben (1923-1934) [de] by Wilhelm Willinger, c. 1926, published[1] in January 1927](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Lea_Niako._Foto_von_Wilhelm_Willinger%2C_c._1927_02.jpg/1280px-Lea_Niako._Foto_von_Wilhelm_Willinger%2C_c._1927_02.jpg)
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She often performed with little to no clothes; nude dancing, or Nackttanz, was at the time popular and was seen as an artistic expression of modernity and emancipation. For her unusual and exotic performances, she garnered great attention in the international press. She also broke through into the film industry, appearing in the Portuguese film Fátima Milagrosa (1928) and the Spanish film La Carta (1931).
