To those who know what she stood for and the way she changed what we know now as DANCE (or modern dance), here are some of the pearls of her AUTO-BIOGRAPHY handpicked by me, a voracious person (reader, dancer, lover, teacher, apprentice and lots of etcs added to the mix).
The PASSION, CONVICTION, INTELLIGENCE and COURAGE of this Woman leaves me breathless: BREATHLESS.
It is - also - from this Ocean that my waters are born and dance wild.
Catch these Pearls (from "MY LIFE", Isadora Duncan) and, if possible (notice all you can imagine is possible), do something from it:
". The ballet school taught the pupils that this spring was found in the centre of the back at the base of the spine. From this axis, says the ballet master, arms, legs, and trunk must move freely, giving the result of na articulated puppet. This method produces artificial mechanical movement not worthy of the soul. I, on the contrary, sought the source of the spiritual expression to flow into the channels of the body, filling it with vibrating light - the centrifugal force reflecting the spirit´s vision. After many months, when I had learned to concentrate all my force to this one Centre, I found that thereafter when I listened to music the rays and vibrations of the music streamed to this one fount of light within me - there they reflected themselves in Spiritual Vision, not the brain´s mirror, but the soul´s, and from this vision I could express them in Dance. I have often tried to explain to artists this first basic theory of my Art. Stanislavsky mentions my telling him of this in his book, My Life in Art."
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"The body itself must then be forgotten; it is only an instrument harmonised, and well appropriated, and its movements do not express, as in gymnastics, only the movements of a body, but, through that body, they express also the sentiments and thoughts of the soul."
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"This was not a young man making love to a girl. This was the meeting of twin souls. The light covering of flesh was so transmuted with ecstasy that earthly passion became a heavenly embrace of white, fiery flame.
These are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them."
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"Art gives form and harmony to what in life is chaos and discord."
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"Ah, how I envy the resignation of those nunswho pray with pale lips, murmuring incessant prayers all through the night before the coffins of strangers. Such temperaments are the envy of the artist who revolts, who cries, "I will love, love, create joy, joy." What a Hell!"
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"Nietzsche was the first dancing philosopher."
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"The miracle of love is the varied themes and keys in which it can be played, and the love of one man compared to another may be as different as hearing the music of Beethoven compared to the music of Puccini, and the instrument that gives the response to these melodious players is woman. And I suppose a woman who has known but one man is like a person who has heard only one composer."
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"Ah, how I envy the resignation of those nunswho pray with pale lips, murmuring incessant prayers all through the night before the coffins of strangers. Such temperaments are the envy of the artist who revolts, who cries, "I will love, love, create joy, joy." What a Hell!"
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"Nietzsche was the first dancing philosopher."
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"The miracle of love is the varied themes and keys in which it can be played, and the love of one man compared to another may be as different as hearing the music of Beethoven compared to the music of Puccini, and the instrument that gives the response to these melodious players is woman. And I suppose a woman who has known but one man is like a person who has heard only one composer."
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