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
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.
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.
beautiful children giving
I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.
american-dancer people
People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.
ideas words
ideas and words that do not make any sense.
diversity unity movement
I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.
trends might united-states
One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.
girl memories children
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.
writing men great-work
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.
art flower agony
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.
gestures
All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture....
farewell glory my-friends
Farewell my friends, I go to glory.
mother wine oysters
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'