Introduction to Duncan Technique

 

 Who was Isadora Duncan? Isadora Duncan Dances and Dance Technique

 

 Who was Isadora Duncan? Episode 2 - Isadora's Loves

 

 Who was Isadora Duncan? Isadora's Political Dances

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Steps Explored in Class

Listening to Waltzs

Walk with focus

Walk with focus in different directions

Say "I am a king"

Use of metatarsus

Waltz step

Beauty prayer (inner focus)

arms above

beneath

solar

before me

behind me

all around

figure eight with arms

arms with walk

arms with waltz step

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Choreographing

Male students observed the Revolutionary Study and the female students observed the piece Water Study in order to take some movement vocabulary and incorporate it into their own phrases.

MEN

 Revolutionary Study


WOMEN

Water Study

Sources:

Isadora Duncan International Institute