Isadora Duncan Dance

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    “The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.”
    —Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)

    “The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.”
    —Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)

    “There comes a pause, for human strength
    Will not endure to dance without cessation;
    And everyone must reach the point at length
    Of absolute prostration.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)