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ArtsJournal: music
2020-05-17 12:30:00
Louis Delsarte, Muralist Of African American Experience, 75
Delsarte’s large-scale public murals are his best-known works, but he also painted and created drawings and prints. His murals, though, they’re the ones that everyone in New York (and elsewhere) knows. “‘Whenever I see Louis’s work, I see a bunch of black people looking good, from anywhere and everywhere in the diaspora,’ said Arturo Lindsay, an […]
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Royal Opera House
2014-10-15 16:15:44
The beauty of simple movements: Who was Isadora Duncan?
[…] dance world? Duncan got her first job in 1896, with a New York dance company run by Augustin Daly . She probably briefly studied ballet around this point as well, and quickly developed what would be a lifelong dislike of the hierarchy of theatre work and what she saw as the 'mechanical' imposition of ballet steps. Far more attractive to Duncan was Delsartism – a distinctively US understanding of the teachings of singing teacher François Delsarte, which proposed a system for connecting movement within the body. Delsartism in part laid the foundation for Duncan's own philosophy, although she was also influenced by Hellenic aesthetics, Wagner 's theories of Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) and Walt Whitman 's transcendentalism, to name just a few. Duncan argued that 'the natural language of the soul [is] the movement of the body'. Her movements were simple and semi-improvisational, finding inspiration in the natural world […]
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