Obsessed with Light (2023)

overview : Loïe Fuller, stage name of Marie Louise Fuller: the American actress and dancer trained in burlesque, circuses and variety shows who, in the 1890s, signed by the Folies Bergère of Paris, became a star. She was portrayed by Toulouse-Lautrec, loved by the symbolists, the inspiration for Art Nouveau, in her shows she combined dance, spirals of fabric and light, reflected from behind or from below through the glass floor that she had created. She transformed into the "Fairy of Light", was taken up (especially in her Serpentine Dance) by Georges Méliès and Alice Guy and influenced René Clair's early films.

Release Date : Nov 21, 2023

Runtime : 1h 30m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : ZDF, Between the Rivers Productions

Countries : France, Germany, United States of America

Keywords : dancer, biography, modern art, dance practice, artistic dance, biographical, dance dance revolution