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
dancer humanity nations
The dancer will not belong to any nation but to all humanity.
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.
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.
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.
able way satisfaction
For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have the satisfaction of getting my own way.
marriage firsts matrimony
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
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 dancing jean-jacques-rousseau
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
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'.
gestures
All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture....
beautiful dance art
It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.
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.
farewell glory my-friends
Farewell my friends, I go to glory.
form findings
What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life