Dance and Embodiment

Dance and Embodiment in the Sensual Encyclopedia explores this field through sensuality, embodiment, human experience, and practical meaning.

Isadora Duncan

## In brief Isadora Duncan is often remembered as the dancer who took off the ballet shoe. That is true, but too small. Duncan altered the cultural imagination of dance by insisting that movement could arise from breath, weight, music, nature, and inward necessity rather than fro

Martha Graham

## In brief Martha Graham made modern dance feel as if the body had learned to speak from its center. Her choreography did not treat emotion as decoration placed on top of movement. It treated movement as the event through which emotion becomes visible, shaped, and bearable.

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