Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan
Angela Isadora Duncanwas an American dancer. Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. She performed to acclaim throughout Europe...
ProfessionChoreographer
Date of Birth27 May 1877
CitySan Francisco, CA
beautiful dance art
It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.
dance men thinking
Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.
religious art greek
The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise
dancing technique masters
Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.
beautiful dance art
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
dancer humanity nations
The dancer will not belong to any nation but to all humanity.
dance expression movement
I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.
children learning giving
I do not teach children, I give them joy.
children feet giving
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
men revolution fellow-man
Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!
art america russia
I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.
art people rich
These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.
dance giving people
A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.
gymnastics ballet movement
Movements are as eloquent as words.