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Isadora Duncan, Yesenin's wife, the queen of dance
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Isadora Duncan, a dancer from the United States, is known in our country mainly as the wife of Sergei Yesenin.
In the rest of the world, she is ranked among the greatest theorists and practitioners of dance art.
Just as cars replaced horses, Duncan at the beginning of the XX century created a new concept of dance, different from the classical palace choreography.
Dance capable, as she believed, of healing and improving the soul.
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Isadora Duncan crossed out all the conventions of the classical school, removing pointe shoes from the ballerina and offering to feel the energy of the stage with her bare feet.
She refused the tutu, put on a tunic: the body, not clamped in a corset, breathes, lives, dances.
Classical ballet generates mechanical, artificial movements, a memorized combination of poses and movements, even very beautiful and verified, closes the soul.
And you need to dance with your soul and soul.
It is the human body that is able to catch and transmit the breeze, the mutiny of sea waves, thunderclaps and the radiance of the sun.
A person in a dance is a continuation of the existence of nature, in all its greatness and smallest manifestations.
Isadora Duncan considered dance art to be generally available.
She promoted the development of mass schools where children, learning to dance, would learn the beauty of their body movements.
She opened such schools in Berlin, Paris, Greece, and America.
The search for funds and a place for her idea of life led Duncan to Russia.
Researcher Gordon McVey in his work "Sergei Yesenin and Isadora Duncan" quotes from the article of the People's Commissar of Education A.V. Lunacharsky "Our Guest", published in 1921, a month after Isadora arrived in Moscow: "...Duncan's dreams go far.
She is thinking about a large public school with 500 or 1,000 students, but for now she agrees to start with a small number of children who will receive education through our teachers, but physically and aesthetically develop under her guidance…Duncan herself, so far, is imbued with a very militant communism, which sometimes causes an involuntary, of course, extremely kind and even, if you want, a tender smile...
Duncan was called the queen of gesture, but of all her gestures, this last one, a trip to revolutionary Russia, despite the fears inspired on her, is the most beautiful and deserves the loudest applause."
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The first performance of Duncan in Moscow took place on November 7, 1921 on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater on the day of the celebration of the fourth anniversary of October.
The Duncan School in the USSR worked until 1929.
Isadora herself tragically died in 1927, and left Russia in 1924.
The first international symposium dedicated to the work of Isadora Duncan was recently held in the American capital, at the George Washington University.
It gathered more than fifty participants, including dancers, choreographers, dance researchers, psychologists and teachers from various states of America, as well as specialists from Germany and Russia.
It was visited by the Russian researcher of Duncan Elena Yushkova, candidate of art History, author of the book "Plastic overcoming: brief notes on the history of plastic theater in Russia in the twentieth century".
— At the symposium, it was discussed, — says Elena Yushkova, - whether the dance of Isadora Duncan exists today, in the XXI century?
And if so, what happens to it: is it frozen in some ossified forms or is it continuing to develop?
Since the dance was passed only from hand to hand — from female students to female students and only at the end of the XX century was recorded on paper with the help of labanotation (a system of recording movement invented by the German choreographer Rudolf Laban), what is left of it today?
Why does Duncan dance need and to whom?
The main ideas of Isadora Duncan were expressed more than a century ago and live to this day.
First of all, it is the musicality of movement and sensitivity to the slightest nuances of music, movement from the center (which in the human body is located approximately in the area of the solar plexus), harmony of all parts of the body in the process of movement, fluid smooth movements that at first glance seem very simple.
Even now, there are many myths about the Duncan dance, - they were analyzed by the dancer and teacher Valerie Dernham, one of the organizers of the symposium.
For example, it is believed that it is so simple that everyone can perform it almost without preparation, that Isadora's dances are not "staged", but simply improvised by her on stage, that when she died, her dance died with her…
All professional duncanists are well aware of the absurdity of these statements, they know how difficult it is to master this technique and that Duncan dance is not just a historical heritage that needs to be preserved, but also a living, modern and to this day very expressive art form.
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Today, new opportunities for Duncan's choreography are also opening up.
The body and the psyche are interconnected, and individual changes in the emotional or mental sphere cause changes in all these areas.
Often people with a high degree of bodily tension are not aware of their feelings.
A muscle clamp is an untreated emotion that prevents a person (who often does not realize this) from feeling like a complete person.
And if you activate the body with the help of dance, release tension, then the feelings will be released, which means that the senses will be sharpened.
By improving coordination, achieving a harmonious possession of the body, it is possible to harmonize the inner emotional world of a person.
As Elena Yushkova noted, that is why the Isadora system is in demand — numerous studios in different cities of the United States do not lack students.
There are even studios for the disabled, where people with disabilities comprehend the philosophical choreography of Duncan in practice and, as one of the participants of the symposium demonstrated on video, they quite successfully practice certain elements of dance, those that people with limited movement can perform.
It is sad, but modern children are squeezed no less than in Puritan times, although they do not wear corsets today.
Now children spend most of the day at computers.
This distorts their musculature, the chest cannot move normally, the person cannot breathe normally... is it necessary to continue this semi medical chain any further?
In the course of classes on the Duncan system, children and adolescents gradually begin to release their breath, liberate the body and soon literally blossom.
The main advantage of the method is that fluency in the musculoskeletal system becomes an instrument for the harmonization of personality.
Therefore, we can safely say that education through Duncan dance is not only aesthetic in nature."
The school in Russia was closed for ideological reasons, as promoting " painful, decadent art brought to our country from America."
Time has corrected this formulation, revealing the true meaning of Duncan's work innovation, spiritual purification and the aesthetics of optimism through the harmonious development of the individual.
That's why her dance is still in demand today, a hundred years later.
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