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
american-dancer people
People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.
dance believe america
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
dance should-have tragedy
When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.
self dancer creative
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of herself and out of something greater than all selves.
dance real school
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
beautiful dance art
To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.
dance art taken
My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.
dance mad people
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
dance school want
To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.
dance quality genius
I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
art dancer body
The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.
music dance soul
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
dance art years
I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years
dance needs if-i-could
If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!