Originally published 1927.With our rapidly expanding elderly population, the questions ‘what is healthy aging?’ and ‘how do we promote it’ are increasingly relevant. New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2013. Hmm, can it be channeled into a punch? (See part 2)ĭuncan, Isadora. Energy in the body is directed by a creative intention, but also unifying and flowing with this force, and it creates a unique result. It certainly seems like Duncan was describing something akin to chi. “After many months, when I learned to concentrate all my force to this one Centre, I found that thereafter when I listened to music the rays and vibrations of the music streamed to this one fount of light within me – there they reflected themselves in Spiritual Vision, not the brain’s mirror, but the soul’s, and from this vision I could express them in dance.” (Duncan 60) In Duncan’s autobiography, My Life, she describes her method of accessing the energy: “For hours I would stand quite still, my two hands folded between my breasts, covering the solar plexus.” (Duncan 59, 60) Duncan goes on to further delineate her process and differentiate it from the technique of ballet, “I…sought the source of spiritual expression to flow into the channels of the body, filling it with vibrating light – the centrifugal force reflecting the spirit’s vision.” (Duncan 60) Finally, she began to refine her system. The modern dance innovator, Isadora Duncan provides a compelling example. The expression of art, be it visual arts, music, writing, or acting, seems to have similar ideas about tapping into a mystical life force and unleashing a powerful version of the artist's creative thought.
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