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nor she ever needed to, transcend the archetypal values; she illustrated them with movement, the »body’s soul« instead. When she addressed Plato, Nietzsche, Wagner or Rousseau, she used only that part of her knowledge which she needed to explain the reduction of her movement and choreographies. Isadora suggested, rather than developed, the movement. Her running, leaping and turning were all but simplified. Her expressive arms gave the needed expression to her. As much as the classical ballet tends to defy gravity, Isadora tried to use the natural free fall and decline of the body, thanks to gravity. One had an impression of constant levitation and frisking of the body. In the beginning of her career, Isadora used to express herself mainly lyrically, but later, with her own maturation and tragedies that had followed her, she became a godess of the Mother Earth and a heroine. Minimalist movements represented her wish to be clear in her message, but maybe her inability, as well. Her amateurism was manifested there but, even though it was poor and reduced, it was always suggestive. The belief in her own body, the might of anticipating the nature, have given this artiste a specific expression. What she left to us as a valuable heritage was the idea and oath »that we have the right to be our own«. Isadora was a victim of love, giving and dedication to people she loved unreservedly and Mho ahvays abandoned her. The men saw a »divine nightmare« in her; they dreamed a dream of the love tormenting »anima«. An egocentric genius of the modern theater, Gordon Craig, left Isadora because of her alleged possessiveness. The insensible rich man, Paris Singer, knew she belonged to art and not to him. He went away. Sergei Yessenin, a »doomed poet«, escaped to death from Isadora’s »amorous death«. The legend of the artiste and the woman sloM'ly dissolved, and Isadora was unable to accept the new age, self-seeking in her attempt to return the old film of her glory. She confused the past, present and future. She did not understand the lack of gratitude on the part of her audiences and friends. In alcoholism and nymphomania, she became what she desperately avoided all her life. She

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