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
music dance soul
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
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.
dance real past
If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.
mind body example
I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
marriage intelligent feminist
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
family mothers-day mom
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
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.
dance school want
To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.
dancing technique masters
Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.
grieving littles way
Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said 'Cease to grieve', but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.
dance mad people
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
heart white soul
Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.
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.
understanding experience print
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.