The North Carolina Museum of Art presents a screening of the Loie Fuller documentary film Obsessed with Light, directed by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum, and a performance by Jody Sperling and her Time Lapse Dance ensemble. The film pulls back the curtain on Loïe Fuller, a wildly original performer who revolutionized the visual culture of the early 20th century. Creating a dialogue between the past and the present, the documentary features Sperling and her company creating a 21st homage to Fuller.

Following the screening, Sperling and dancers materialize cinema’s flickering shadows and light play with two Fuller-inspired works. Fractal Pathways, featured in the documentary, illuminates the entanglement of bodies through time. The culminating moment is a striking reimagining of Fuller’s 1896 Fire Dance, that is eerily resonant with our own combustible era. The program concludes with Arbor, dwelling on the elegant intimacy of trees.