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| As the first fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
Isadora was hoping that Daly would develop her dancing career, arrenge her perfomances or put her dances in theater plays.But instead he offered the dancer a small acting part in pantomime "Miss Pigmalion",where the leading actress was a great french star of pantomime Jane May. The rehersal of the play was in New York, so she borrowed some money from her friends to buy tickets. In New New York her brothers and sister joined her, who decided that the fortune already made.This period of time wasn't easy for Isadora. During the rehersal,she wasn't receiving the salary, so she was often thrown out from pansions for non payment. Staging of "Miss Pigmalion" didn't gain a success from audience. In her memoirs,Isadora said that after so much efforts, they gained such miserable results. Besides, Jane May wasn't satisfied with Isadora's acting,so she always swore for this and others matters. Isadora Duncan didn't find pantomime as an art, she thought about its movements in "Miss Pagamlion" as vulgar and silly that didn't conect to music,under which they were making.
Interesting fact that Isadora during her work with the theater company had a pseudonym Sarah Duncan. Her next appearance was in Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream", on this time, in a dancing part. She played the first fairy. Before going on the stage she had some disagreement with Daly.Isadora was refusing to wear the wings from papier mache considering them ridiculous, arguing that she could portray them,but her attempt failed. Her dancing liked to the audience so much that they gave her a big applause. Augustin Daly was unpleasantly surprised about that, because he was trying to keep every member of his troup in one line, not highlighting any one. So, that's why,by Isadora's own words, he ordered to unscrew the bulbs during her dancing,so no one can see her clearly. Although, it could be possible that it was done only when she danced alone, because she was playing the part with Miss Convers and the newspapers show good reviews about her dance.
After that, she had another dancing part in "Twelfth Night". Later followed spectacle "Geisha" where,except dancing, she also had to sing in a quartet. Unfortunately,Isadora didn't have a good voice, so she had to pretend that she was singing,since she couldn't sing a single note, which baffled others artists. But wherein she could kept a pleasent facial expression unlike her co-singers, as Isadora's mother mentioned. In the next play "Much Ado About Nothing" she was one of the four gypsies who danced under the serenade "Sigh no more ladies".Than the dancer was one of the spirits in "The Tempest". In 1897 she appeared in "Meg Merrilies, or the Witch of Ellangowan" where she danced in prologue.(The last three of Isadora stage dances was composed by Daly's choreographer Carl Marwig, according to Ann Daly's "Done into Dance:Isadora Duncan in America"). After that, they had a tour in England.
Arrived back to America, Isadora left Daly's troup due to unclaiming of her genius and ideas and "the imbecility of the things that went on in his theatre ".Those two years in Augustin Daly's Company Isadora concluded with such words: "I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me".
Interesting fact that Isadora during her work with the theater company had a pseudonym Sarah Duncan. Her next appearance was in Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream", on this time, in a dancing part. She played the first fairy. Before going on the stage she had some disagreement with Daly.Isadora was refusing to wear the wings from papier mache considering them ridiculous, arguing that she could portray them,but her attempt failed. Her dancing liked to the audience so much that they gave her a big applause. Augustin Daly was unpleasantly surprised about that, because he was trying to keep every member of his troup in one line, not highlighting any one. So, that's why,by Isadora's own words, he ordered to unscrew the bulbs during her dancing,so no one can see her clearly. Although, it could be possible that it was done only when she danced alone, because she was playing the part with Miss Convers and the newspapers show good reviews about her dance.
After that, she had another dancing part in "Twelfth Night". Later followed spectacle "Geisha" where,except dancing, she also had to sing in a quartet. Unfortunately,Isadora didn't have a good voice, so she had to pretend that she was singing,since she couldn't sing a single note, which baffled others artists. But wherein she could kept a pleasent facial expression unlike her co-singers, as Isadora's mother mentioned. In the next play "Much Ado About Nothing" she was one of the four gypsies who danced under the serenade "Sigh no more ladies".Than the dancer was one of the spirits in "The Tempest". In 1897 she appeared in "Meg Merrilies, or the Witch of Ellangowan" where she danced in prologue.(The last three of Isadora stage dances was composed by Daly's choreographer Carl Marwig, according to Ann Daly's "Done into Dance:Isadora Duncan in America"). After that, they had a tour in England.
Arrived back to America, Isadora left Daly's troup due to unclaiming of her genius and ideas and "the imbecility of the things that went on in his theatre ".Those two years in Augustin Daly's Company Isadora concluded with such words: "I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me".
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