billyjane:Masked Ballerina, c. 1880
one more fabulous Gerlach and Martin Gerlach Junior [see here & here] postcards, this one feat. Mary Deba
thanks to shhme
momentry:Isadora Duncan on the Lido in Venice (Raymond Duncan 1903)
“To seek in nature the fairest forms and to find the movement which expresses the soul in these forms—this is the art of the dancer. … My inspiration has been drawn from trees, from waves, from clouds, from the sympathies that exist between passion and the storm.”
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