Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts

Thursday, 17 March 2016

Isadora Duncan's series of photos in Greek dress. Berlin c.1903

Universitätsbibliothek JCS Frankfurt am Main
Universitätsbibliothek JCS Frankfurt am Main
                                                     Another photo you can see  here.                                                                                                   

Saturday, 8 November 2014

The first edition of essay "The Dance of the Future",1903.

The first rare edition of "The Dance of the Future", 1903. Published in Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs
More about this rare edition selling: http://www.peterharrington.co.uk/rare-books/dance/der-tanz-der-zukunft-the-dance-of-the-future/

In 1903 Isadora Duncan have read a lecture about the dance in Berlin Press Club.Although, Isadora In her autobiography, if indeed it is this event ,wrote that that was in her apartament at Bristol hotel.
Her speach was later published in brochure with the title "The Dance of the Future". She also noted that her book was in every German bookstores, just as the portrait of  Heinrich Thode, who was
a German art historian, Isadora's friend and passion.

Friday, 10 October 2014

Isadora Duncan and Ernst Haeckel first meeting

Ernst Haeckel and Isadora Duncan in front of the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Germany, 1904
This photo was never before published. According to book" THE ARYAN CHRIST: THE SECRET LIFE OF CARL JUNG" this photo was taken on the first day of their meeting. Just a few hours later, they sat in the Wagner family's private box and viewed a performance of Parsifal.
Here how Isadora  recalls about Haeckel and their meeting:
When I was in London, I had read the English translations of the works of Ernst Haeckel in the British Museum. I was greatly impressed by his lucid and clear expression of the different phenomena of the Universe. I wrote him a letter expressing my gratitude for the impression his books had made on me. There must have been something in this letter which arrested his attention, for afterwards, when I danced in Berlin, he replied to it.
At that time Ernst Haeckel was banished by the Kaiser, and could not come to Berlin, on account of his free speaking, but our correspondence had continued and when I was in Bayreuth I wrote and asked him to visit me and attend the Festspiel.