Madhuri dixit biography pdf

Focusing on the dancing films of the 1890s, Tom Gunning (2003, p. 85) described the serpentine dance performed by Loïe Fuller as a precursor to the 'pure joy in motion' of early cinema. Fuller's modernist style innovatively used light, motion and new technologies of illumination to create a visually spectacular dance form. Signposting the importance of motion in cinema, Michel Chion (2019) has suggested that dance is the common thread linking music and cinema as 'allied arts of motion'. One needs to add a crucial layer to these interweaving forms: that of the body in motion, a receptacle of movement in the cinematic assemblage. Usha Iyer's Dancing Women directs us with great flair to mobile choreomusicking bodies, to unpack dance as Indian cinema's 'particular son