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
form findings
What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life
self dancer creative
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of herself and out of something greater than all selves.
genius lovers my-lover
All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.
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.
crush children joy
I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.
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.
determination genius energy
Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
diversity unity movement
I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.