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Tag: somatic experience

Expanding through Space and into the World

In a chapter entitled “The Search for Motion” in her book Time and the Dancing Image, Deborah Jowitt writes of Duncan: “She thought of herself as a dynamo” (90). Referencing the early twentieth-century cultural fixation on electricity, Jowitt claims that Duncan’s use of her solar plexus as the center of …

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silvia sheffield March 17, 2015 March 25, 2015 early modern dance, Isadora Duncan, Loïe Fuller, somatic experience
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