Research On Thinking Of Isadora Duncan’s Dance Art

Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance, ushers modern dance and changes stiff and rigid ballet by her dance art ideas of following nature and advocating freedom. She adheres to the principle of understanding and expressing nature in dance performance. Isadora Duncan integrates much life into dance creation, which enables the dance expresses the appeal to nature and life and makes the modern dance is entirely different from traditional dance in expressive force and dynamic effect. The bolshy dance art ideas of Isadora Duncan awakens three-hundred-year classic performing form of ballet, lays the firm ideas and performance foundation of modern dance, leads the creation and development of postmodern dance genres, and hence, she becomes the founder of creative dance. She strongly advocates to natural dance, disagrees classic ballet which simply pursues form and the most difficult skills, which makes the dance become a brand new art. The innovative dance art ideas of Isadora Duncan display the artistic charm ahead of its time and make great contribution to world dance history. Her outstanding dance creation and dramatic life experience enhances each other’s beauty and contributes to her colorful life. Dance achievement of Isadora Duncan before two hundred years has been eulogized everywhere, and therefore, she is the founder of modern dance.In term of the research on Isadora Duncan’s dance art ideas, this paper has three parts. The first part is the section one which introduces life experience and historical background of Isadora Duncan and lays the foundation to in-depth research; section two and section three are the main parts which show systematically in-depth analysis to Isadora Duncan’s dance art ideas based on relevant theories and research works of predecessors; section two researches the resources of Isadora Duncan’s dance art ideas in natural artistic spirits, dance ideas with free spirit, culture edification of Ancient Greece and basic dance conforming to mass; section three analyses the representation and features of Isadora Duncan’s dance art ideas; and section four is the extension of art ideas, focuses on discussing the effects of Isadora Duncan’s dance art ideas. The author hopes Isadora Duncan’s dance art ideas may play a guidance role in future dance creation.