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 dream passion
My motto - sans limites.
dance dancing body
Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
dance sleep expression
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.
dance inspiration dancing
There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.
pain prayer moon
The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am.
dance order rising
The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.
dancing movement individual
Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
music dance ballet-class
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it
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.
successful earth ideals
I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.
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.