"The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'" "I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. "The true dance is an expression of serenity it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion.Įmotion 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 Poised here at the autumnal equinox, we celebrate the art and life of a woman whose love of Greek mythology led to her creation of a new artform of dance, centered, balanced around the solar plexus, using the rise and fall of the limbs and torso to express a flowing, musical line. Great archs of motion and emotion were the hallmark of the style of balance created by dance pioneer Isadora Duncan. Human beings are meant for dynamic balance, not stability - movement, not stillness. Two - standing becomes a non-optimal state, so two legs are for movement. Four - sensible, functional, can be reduced to three and still work. Photo essay by Dahna Barnett with introduction by Honora Foahīalance: Having two legs is a risky choice. Her great big thighs, her small head, her full solid loins, belly-clean, all clean-she dances awayĬivilization's tainted brain vapors, wholly human and holy-part of God." - John Sloan It's positively splendid! I feel that she dances a symbol of human, animal happiness as it should be,įree from the unnatural trammels. "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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