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Before IMAX movies, webcasts, or motion-capture animation, there was Loie Fuller (1862-1928), a dancer who used her era's technology to create marvels. The predigital ingredients of Fuller's hypnotic spectacles included enormous silk costumes propelled into motion by her own dancing body, rays of multicolored light emanating from her specially engineered instruments, and magic-lantern projections. The magic lantern, a type of slide projector created in the mid-17th century, would cast images onto a screen or, in Fuller's case, moving costumes.
Technologies, new and old, allow performers to create the illusion of expanding, transforming,...
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