Isadora duncan quotes1/23/2024 If then one seeks a point of physical beginning for the movement of the human body, there is a clue in the undulating motion of the wave. The flight of a bird and the movements of all animals follow lines like undulating waves. The motion of water, winds, trees and plants progresses in waves. All the movements of the earth follow the lines of wave motion. Neither could the harmony of movement be invented: it is essential to draw one’s conception of it from Nature herself, and to see the rhythm of human movement from the rhythm of water in motion, from the blowing of the winds on the world, in all the earth’s movements, in the motions of animals, fish, birds, reptiles, and even in primitive man, whose body still moved in harmony with nature…. It is one of the underlying principles of life. Man has not invented the harmony of music. 78.Ĭontext: The harmony of music exists equally with the harmony of movement in nature. the woman who put the Modern into Modern Dance. My inspiration has been drawn from trees, from waves, from clouds, from the sympathies that exist between passion and the storm, between gentleness and the soft breeze, and the like, and I always endeavour to put into my movements a little of that divine continuity which gives to the whole of nature its beauty and its life. Isadora Duncan Home Biography Influecnes Pictures & Videos Quotes. From them I have learned to regard nature, and when certain of my movements recall the gestures that are seen in works of art, it is only because, like them, they are drawn from the grand natural source. The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony. Rodin has said: "To produce good sculpture it is not necessary to copy the works of antiquity it is necessary first of all to regard the works of nature, and to see in those of the classics only the method by which they have interpreted nature." Rodin is right and in my art I have by no means copied, as has been supposed, the figures of Greek vases, friezes and paintings. 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. It is from nature alone that the dancer must draw his inspirations, in the same manner as the sculptor, with whom he has so many affinities. 105.Ĭontext: To seek in nature the fairest forms and to find the movement which expresses the soul of these forms - this is the art of the dancer. As quoted in Modern Dancing and Dancers (1912) by John Ernest Crawford Flitch, p.
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