In
the free movement style that characterized Isadora's dance, is there a "language"
which grammar a digital
reduction to lines may reveal? The
drawings and
illustrations that would have been quickly drawn in-site
during Isadora's performances are, to this day, the only source of information
for the followers of her technique.
Impromptu in A flat, D. 899, N. 4 - Jeno Jando
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There is a clear
pattern: a twist of the body with the
legs going in one direction and the arms and upper torso in the other.
However different the studies may be, they do offer some common
"phrases".