Isadora Duncan in the 21st Century

Andrea Mantell Seidel is a professor emeritus of dance, associate professor of religious studies and former founding director of the Intercultural Dance and Music Institute of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University. She lives in Miami.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1. First Principles: From Breath to Organic Motion

2. Dancing Innocence and Awakening: Childhood and Youth

3. Training for Dance and the Dance of Life

4. Beingness and the Art of Enlightened Performance: Ave Maria

5. Enlightened Performance and Dancing the Chorus: Blessed Spirits

6. The Art of the Solo Dancer: The Brahms, Chopin and Gluck Dances

7. Dancing Community and Joy: The Strauss Waltzes

8. Apollonian Form, Beauty and the Natural Body

9. Dancing the Ecstasy of Dionysus: Bacchanal

10. Dancing the Music

11. Dancing Tragedy and Triumph: Mother, Revolutionary and Nocturne

12. Women Warriors: Dances of Revolutionary Russia

Epilogue. The Dancer of the Future: Onward into the Light

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index