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Isadora and Nietzche
The Birth of Dancing Stars
Photo essay by Dahna Barnett
 
The philosophy of Frederick Nietzsche influenced the dance of Isadora Duncan:
"I had three great Masters, the three great precursors of the Dance in our century-Beethoven, Nietzsche and Wagner.
Beethoven created the dance in mighty rhythm. Wagner in sculptural form. Nietzsche in spirit. Nietzsche was the first dancing philosopher." — Isadora Duncan
Nietzsche's love of the Dance echoed through his work.
"Be that day reckoned lost on which we did not dance once."
"Only in the dance do I know how to tell the parable of the highest things."
"You higher men, the worst about you is that all of you have not learned to dance as one must dance-dancing away over yourselves!"
"I would believe only in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was
the spirit of gravity-through him all things fall."
— Frederick Nietzsche
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Learn more about Isadora Duncan at the
Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation website
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