![]() ![]() Schwartz is also a certified Labanotation reconstructor and has used her expertise to set historic works on professionals as well as students. She has made innovations in dance offerings and implementations for teachers and students. Recently she appeared in interviews and danced in the Elizabeth Kapnist film, Je n'ai fait que danser ma vie.Įlisabeth holds a PhD in Arts and Performance (with a focus on Isadora Duncan) from the Université Charles De Gaulle, Lille 3, France, under the direction of professor Claude JamainĮlisabeth Schwartz is a nationally known and respected dancer and teacher throughout France and is now the Inspectrice de la danse for Les ecoles des arts de la Ville de Paris. This contemporary interpretation of Isadora DUNCAN's dance reveals its innate modernism. Schwartz has been part of a number of film projects in France including Jaillissements (1990 DIRECTOR: Raoul SANGLA) a film which evokes the artistic proximity of Auguste RODIN and Isadora DUNCAN through the communal movements of sculpture and dance. She has also written many articles on dance specifically analyzing the styles and techniques of Rudolf Laban, Ted Shawn, Mary Wigman, Isadora Duncan, Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham, and Velska Gert. This montage has been presented at Cinémathique Francaise in Paris and throughout France. Schwartz has done extensive research on “free dance” and has collected film archives of dancers from the beginning of the century. In 1996, she became certified as a CMA and began teaching Effort Shape at the Université Paris VIII Saint Denis. Since her return to Paris is 1984 she has presented solo and group works of Isadora Duncan with her company L’Onde at Festival de Monpellier, Chateauvallon, Biennale de Lyon…and in Prague, Geneva, Budapest and Berlin. During this time quite by accident she began studying the dance of Isadora Duncan with Julia Levien, world renowned specialist in the repertory of Isadora Duncan. That's why Isadora Duncan is my hero.Elisabeth Schwartz - dancer, choreographer,historian,trained in New York studying ballet with Margaret Craske, modern technique with Merce Cunningham, and Viola Farber. And she let me know how well we can do with the powerful courage. Her courage made her have different opinions of ballet to the world. Her courage made her brave, and go to the unfamiliar place by herself. So common people called her the mother of modern dance. Isadora Duncan was the dancer who broke the rules of ballet and created the new dance style called modern dance. More people knew her and her dance more people started to join and support her. ![]() Although her dance made a big dispute at that time, she strived to spread her dance style. With disheveled hair, she was the first person who was on the stage just like that, casual and relaxed. All of the dance movements should be from what you thought and what you felt. Duncan thought too many skills would break natural beauty of people's bodies. Duncan usually wore a chiton and didn't wear shoes when she was dancing. She studied the art of Ancient Greece and Greek mythology in the British Museum, which provided the inspiration for Duncan's dance style. Isadora Duncan needed to make a living, so she moved to the UK when she was twenty-one. Duncan's dance style was controversial for its time because she disregarded the stock conventions of ballet, but she also got some people's favor, and got success in Europe. Duncan was born on May 26, 1877, in San Francisco, California, and died on September 14, 1927. ![]() She was a trailblazing dancer and a precursor to modern dance techniques. Ritzmann, photographer and importer of celebrity rivative work: Gobonobo / Public domain My hero is Isadora Duncan. Isadora_Duncan_portrait.jpg: Dover Street Studios, 38 Dover Street, Mayfair, London, UK. ![]()
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