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Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan (1878-1927), full name Angela Isadora Duncan, was a US dancer, choreographer and teacher. She instituted a new style of modern dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the US.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
- My Life
  • My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.
- My Life
  • Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
  • The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. We begin with lies and half our lives we live with lies. Most human beings waste some twenty-five to thirty years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
  • I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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