...Isadora Duncan was able to turn out this line of talk. She was able to say that The school of the ballet to-day, vainly striving against the natural laws of...that the law of gravitation does not exist for them. And so on. . . . And finally this . . . To those who nevertheless still enjoy the movements, for historical...

...that it appropriated. Duncan claimed that the "primary or fundamental movements of the new school of dance must have within them the seeds from which will evolve all other movements." 25 Thus the motion of veiling and unveiling, culture/science and nature, is inscribed not merely outside...

...rhythm is successive or can be made to evolve succeeding action, is an expression of degeneration, or living death. All the movements of our modern ballet...that the law of gravitation does not exist for them. (1977, 55) For Duncan, natural movement — organically conceived and executed — could only originate...