The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
Isadora DuncanThe dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of herself and out of something greater than all selves.
Isadora DuncanThe Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.
Isadora DuncanWhen I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.
Isadora Duncan