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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Isadora Duncan"”.
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Corpoduncan: o legado de Isadora Duncan e suas reverberações em processos artísticos na Bahia
… the history of the North American dancer Isadora Duncan, a precursor of modern dance. It is a narrative about her origins and the pathways that made possible for her to create a dance style that is connected with the elements of nature, Greek mythology and the Renaissance. The creation of …
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Where the dancer meets her divine: dance as religious experience in the lives of Loie Fuller and Isadora Duncan
… examining the lives of dancers Loie Fuller and Isadora Duncan, both creators of influential new styles of dance in the late nineteenth century. I begin with a study of the religio-cultural atmosphere of modern society from which Fuller's and Duncan's dances emerged. With a sense of the …
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In|And|Of|Through
… principles espoused by pioneering modern dancer Isadora Duncan to aesthetics from Asian artwork in the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art. This paper is a written account of the choreographic investigations and creative processes that formed the concert, including foundational concepts of Duncan …
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Reanimating the Renaissance: Aesthetes and Art History, 1873-1914
… such as Vernon Lee, Natalie Barney, and Isadora Duncan, women are shown to have had an active role in the recovery of the renaissance. Considering the role of historical desire, the thesis underscores the significance of the Italian renaissance for queer and trans subjectivity in the life …
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Tendencias renovadoras del teatro español del primer tercio del siglo XX: José Francés y Tomás Borrás
… y de las grandes bailarinas finiseculares (Isadora Duncan, Loïe Fuller, Tórtola Valencia, La Polaire, Anna Pavlova, etc.). El papel desempeñado en este proceso por el Teatro de Arte de Martínez Sierra es fundamental; por medio de esta iniciativa, estrena Tomás Borrás su pantomima El sapo …
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Of Space and Time: Film and the Female Performer
… focusing on the early twentieth century work of Isadora Duncan and Loie Fuller. In this,my practice explores an intermedialspace between cinema, dance, stillness and movement to propose the female body as one of crossing, spiralling, and invoking multiple temporalities and liminalities. The …
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The Evolution of Yeats's Dance Imagery: The Body, Gender, and Nationalism
… of early modern dance as Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Maud Allan, and Ruth St. Denis. These collaborations shed important light on the germination of early modern dance and on current trends in the performative arts. Registering anti-imperialist and anti-industrialist agendas, the early …
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Dancing modernisms : rhythmic bodies articulating cultures of modernisms (1909-1929)
… ballet forms. I then move to the free-dance of Isadora Duncan and address its challenge to the traditional ballet-body, analysing how Duncan’s dance makes connections between the primitive in neo Hellenism and the modern in the female self. The active body of the quotidian New Woman then brings …