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
Isadora Duncan quotes about
one-direction people purpose
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
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.
marriage firsts matrimony
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
dance dancing jean-jacques-rousseau
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
gestures
All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture....
night perfect theatre
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.
genius lovers my-lover
All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.
music america ears
No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.
trends might united-states
One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.
diversity unity movement
I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.