![]() ![]() The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth. 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 true dance is an expression of serenity it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. ![]() “Natural dancing should only mean that the dance does not go against nature, not that anything is left to chance.” “If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.” During class, she urged her students to listen to the music and wait until it moved them to dance. Driven by her belief that, “Every child that is born in civilization has a right to the heritage of beauty”, she covered the poorer students living expenses. She opened her first school in Grunewald, Germany in 1904. In this school I shall not teach the children to imitate my movements, but to make their own, I shall not force them to study certain movements, I shall help them to develop those movements which are natural to them.” “My intention is, in due time, to found a school, to build a theatre where a hundred little girls shall be trained in my art, which they in turn will better. In 1903, she gave a lecture in Berlin where she stated her dance principles. For hours I would stand quite still, my two hands folded between my breast, covering the solar plexus… I was seeking and finally discovered the central spring of all movement, the crater of motor power, the unity from which all diversions of movement are born, the mirror of vision for the creation of dance.” “I spent long days and nights in the studio, seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body’s movement. Isadora considered the solar plexus the “internal motor” and would stand hours in trance. The result was a simplicity of grace, which like all masterworks, appeared deceptively easy to achieve. Stressing improvisation and pure emotion, she strove to rid her movements of all artifice. Rejecting classical ballet which she deemed, “ugly and against nature”, she clad herself in Grecian tunics, threw off her shoes, unbound her hair, and danced from her soul. While Isadora did eventually marry the Russian poet, Sergei Yesenin, in 1922, the Mother of Modern Dance kept her vow of dedicating herself to the pursuit of art, beauty, and truth.įrom early childhood, Isadora studied the lines of ancient Greek sculpture and the movements of nature both of which she incorporated into her unique style. That is all we know on earth, and all we need to know.” To seal this vow, I hearby burn my parents’ marriage certificate. I will never submit myself to any claims other than to truth and beauty. “I, Isadora Duncan hereby vow on my twelfth birthday that I will dedicate myself to the pursuit of art and beauty and to the single life. ![]() Don’t let them tame you.”- Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)īorn in San Francisco, the poetic thinker and dancer proclaimed, ![]()
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