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
american-dancer people
People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.
dance expression movement
I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.
gymnastics ballet movement
Movements are as eloquent as words.
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.
dance needs if-i-could
If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!
dance art years
I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years
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.
marriage intelligent feminist
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
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.
dance mad people
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
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.
dancer humanity nations
The dancer will not belong to any nation but to all humanity.