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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I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.
art people rich
These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.
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.
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Movements are as eloquent as words.
dance soul together
The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body.
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The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
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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.
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The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?
eye tired simple
Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it.
beautiful dance children
Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.
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The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.
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Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
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If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it
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If I could say it, I would not have to dance it.