One night, with the vision of the river flowing and rippling in the sunshine as I had seen it that morning, I sent word to the director of the orchestra, and, at the end of the performance, improvised "The Blue Danube" of Strauss. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2013. Introduction by Joan Acocella, Prefatory Essay by Doree Duncan. Kooluris performed this dance at Smith College at the invitation of Maria-Theresa Duncan. The "wave movement" is prominent in the successional motion of the arms. It was performed in the United States by Irma Duncan in 1932. Washington DC: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1994. Her personification of the ‘Blue Danube’ is too well known to need comment other than this – that it seemed the spirit of the river itself, flowing on to the wide sea, and, though Miss Duncan has always to be coaxed into doing this, she owes it to herself to make it a fixed feature of every program she presents, for she is the river. (15 pages, reprinted from the NYPL Bulletin, May 1958.) Isadora Duncan: Pioneer in the Art of Dance. She was, in the true sense of the word, inspired, gathering within herself forces beyond the boundaries of her own or any personality, and sending them forth so that we all felt them, and were exalted by a vision of unknown worlds." Leigh Mitchell Hodgeĭuncan, Irma. ![]() ISBN 6-1įrom The Art of the Dance, Kurth quotes: "her simple waltzing forward and back, like the oncoming and receding waves of the shore, had such an ecstasy of rhythm that audiences became frenzied with the contagion of it. By many accounts this work became an audience favorite in Isadora’s repertory. ![]() Peter Kurth reports Isadora first performed the waltz in Budapest, in the spring of 1902, with great success (Kurth, 2001, p. Choreographed by Isadora Duncan circa 1905, per Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck (1994).
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