Loie Fuller: yellow & black (Ola Maciejewska)

Loie Fuller was an American dance pioneer of the late 19th century that manipulated gigantic robes into sculptural forms. This is a performance of shape shifts, instant freezes, and temporary sculptures. Fuller, the dancer, is here stripped down to a Dancing Dress (a 1894 patent of her), and looks like a pre-modern cyborg. When this compound of flesh, meters of silk, and sticks of bamboo or aluminium moves, it is hard to discern who or what moves and how.

With thanks to Zeebelt, TENT