serpentine dance

Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Jenny Baines and I met for a chat about ideas for the Physical Center project.

I told them about a plan I had to re-create, in some sense, the Serpentine Dance by Loie Fuller (1890). What interests me is the simple way Fuller created performances involving moving coloured lights and swathes of fabric with low- tech devices, such as gel filters and arm extentions. She amazed audiences, at the time, with an illusion of the movement of flight and was one of  the first to create images and experiences that hint of a cybernetic future.