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
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Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.
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The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
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Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
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Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
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There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.
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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.
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ideas and words that do not make any sense.
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I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.
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One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.
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I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.
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Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.
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No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.
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All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture....
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Farewell my friends, I go to glory.