DANC 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Irish Stepdance, Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigman
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Walter sorell: movement is the essence of life, dance it"s ultimate expression. The artist creates out of the world that has made him in order to remake it according to the image of his inner world. Jose limon: movement in order to have power and beauty, must spring from the organic center of the body. It must be intensely human, or it will be gymnastics, and be mechanical and empty. To attune our inmost feelings to the mood of the time. Isadora duncan: the dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough now, i would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul. Alvin ailey: i think that dance should primarily be entertainment. It"s a visual theater and an oral theater beautiful people, beautifully dressed, doing beautiful and meaningful things. Can be a solo, duet, small group, or cast of hundreds.
