A Cloud with a Name
Loïe Fuller’s Ghost Dances
The artist says he is tormented by the work of Loïe Fuller, a pioneer of modern dance. An American-born dancer who built her career in Paris, she was noticed from her first appearances at the Folies Bergère in 1892 for the veils she wrapped around herself, creating waves and ripples that floated in space.
Using period photographs, the artist set out to reactivate her famous serpentine dance. These different processes, or matrices, are based on the same principle of exploring «in action» what has been given as present in the past.
The artist Patrick Gaïaudo (born 1966, FR, lives and works in France) is engaged in a dance-based research and practice that examines the choreographic exhibition.