REBECCA BACHAR AND SON

“Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for - liberation.”

- Martha Graham

http://www.everydayhealth.com/fitness-pictures/health-benefits-of-dance.aspx#/slide-1

ballet suicide rate-
http://www.something-fishy.org/cultural/ballet.php

PROBLEMS WITH BALLET-
http://www.siue.edu/sociology/EJS/v32kelso.htm

HEIDI CLEVELAND, DENISE GREINER, HANNELORE CLEMENSON, MARILYN TODT, CHRIS SORFLOTAN, LISA RIZER

ISADORA DUNCAN QUOTE "Dance is the most natural and beautiful aid to the developing child in its constant movement. Only that education is right which includes dance" 
 ISADORA DUNCAN Rebecca Bachar IDMA TEMPLE STUDIO OF FINE ART AND DANCE

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others”

― Martha Graham

To rediscover in its ideal form the beautiful rhythmic movements of the human body, in harmony with the highest beauty of physical form.   
                                                                  ISADORA DUNCAN MOTHER OF MODERN DANCE

 "In one arms movement was all the grace of the world", 

Said of Isadora Duncan

To seek in nature the fairest forms and to find the movement which expresses the soul of these forms — this is the art of the dancer. It is from nature alone that the dancer must draw his inspirations, in the same manner as the sculptor, with whom he has so many affinities. Rodin has said: "To produce good sculpture it is not necessary to copy the works of antiquity; it is necessary first of all to regard the works of nature, and to see in those of the classics only the method by which they have interpreted nature." Rodin is right; and in my art I have by no means copied, as has been supposed, the figures of Greek vases, friezes and paintings. From them I have learned to regard nature, and when certain of my movements recall the gestures that are seen in works of art, it is only because, like them, they are drawn from the grand natural source.

My inspiration has been drawn from trees, from waves, from clouds, from the sympathies that exist between passion and the storm, between gentleness and the soft breeze, and the like, and I always endeavour to put into my movements a little of that divine continuity which gives to the whole of nature its beauty and its life. ISADORA DUNCAN

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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"the music is not so important as the silence in between" mozart

"In Duncan you don't have to 'color within the lines' you don't

have to live within someone else's parameters.   To say there is 

room for self expression is an understatement - self expression

is encouraged and supported and brought to a strong, artistic, 

and refined level. It is the very basis of the technique." 

REBECCA BACHAR IDMA

"Oh, She is coming, the dancer of the future: ...the highest intelligence in the freest body!"
ART of the DANCE  ISADORA DUNCAN

"The Body is the Temple of the Soul" ISADORA DUNCAN Art of the Dance