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)

    “Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!
    Our virgins dance beneath the shade—
    I see their glorious black eyes shine;
    But gazing on each glowing maid,
    My own the burning tear-drop laves,
    To think such breasts must suckle slaves.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)