Count Taylor Swift and Shakira as Fans of Dancer Loïe Fuller, Subject of a New Documentary
‘Obsessed With Light’ is a meditation on artistic continuity, of how the past continues to inform and inspire the present. This is a lesson that always bears repeating, particularly in an era as ahistorical as our own.
New Yorkers who regularly traverse the byways of Penn Station may not know the name Loïe Fuller (1862-1928), but they will recognize the distinctive figure she cut. Fuller’s “Serpentine Dance” was in regular circulation on the LED signage monitors situated throughout the building this fall as part of an advertising campaign by the Museum of Modern Art. That delicately tinted vignette of a woman twirling extravagant lengths of silk? She’s Fuller.
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