Dancing in the Movies: Tail-feathers Shaken from Singing in the Rain to Dogtooth by David Dastmalchian
By Yasmina Tawil
From the first moment I saw Gene Kellys dress shoes splashing through the puddles on that marvelous cutout MGM set to the skintight cat suit gyrations of Olivia Newton Johns hips while she belted Youre the One That I Want, I have personally been a fetishistic slave to the power of bodies in motion on film. When I was a kid, I was captivated by the way that Gene Wilder rolled from geriatric frailty...
