Occupation: Dancer Birth: May 27, 1877 Death: September 14, 1927
To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art..
I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born..
Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit..
Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body..
Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing..
What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life.
My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave..
I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth..
I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehens….
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences..
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance..
Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The….
I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, ….
For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wish….
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, an….
The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the….
Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, whic….
The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is me….
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul..
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?.
I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement..