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<b>396. ISADORA DUNCAN</b> (1878 - 1927) American dancer whose avant-garde style revolutionized modern dance, widely admired throughout Europe. An incredible and important manuscript A.L.S., 14pp. 4to., [n.p., July, 1921] in which Duncan makes an impassioned plea to be allowed to introduce her dance to the Russian people. Duncan sent this plea to the Russian Legation in London for their consideration in issuing her a visitor's visa. This superb letter reads, in small part: <i>"...[I seek] to raise the dance again to a peak religious art, to that height where she might rejoin hands with her sister arts, music, sculpture and poetry, and where she might again take her rightful place as the chorus or lyric soul of tragedy...to rediscover...that heroic impulse which should embody all the aspirations of a People toward the ideal of great and harmonious life...a conception simpler and sterner than the old optimistic frivolous conception of the ballet, to teach them that the beauty of a moving figure lies in its intention, and not in the expertness of its gymnastic evolutions...no movement in itself or for itself is beautiful...my school is as much a revolution from the ballet, as your government is from the system of the czars - you wish to do away with shams and spread true and great life about you - not for the few but for all...Great art comes from the people, and great art is for the people...I would come to Russia to teach your children to dance, but no dancer is worthy to be taught a child unless it is such a dance that will express the divinity of that child's life...begin with at least a hundred boys and a hundred girls, under the age of 8 or 9 years...their artistic education should be completely under my direction. My school should be recognized as a national institution and be assured a permanent future...I can assure you in return that after five years or so of work you will possess a school of the dance that will be worthy of Russia, and of the high ideal of humanity and beauty to which you are endeavoring to direct her...In closing, I send you the greeting of an idealist to an idealist...</i>". Much more important content in this fantastic letter! Boldly signed with a huge signature, file holes at top and left margins, else very good to fine condition. Duncan did indeed open a successful school of dance in the Soviet Union. <b>$2,000-3,000</b>
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