Dancing Figures
Dancing Figures from Travel through Time performance A composition of four well – known choreographies of Isadora Duncan, the “mother of modern dance" that used to call her inspirations "The dance of the Future". Isadora, being inspired by ancient Greek art and sculpture as well as the art of Renaissance, creates body-forms that reflect the ideals of Beauty, Harmony, Balance and Freedom. The dancer begins to move among people towards the stage, transforming the place into a "time - machine" which connects time, space, lives, dreams, past, present and future. The first choreography is called "Tanagras" that Isadora was inspired by the "Tanagra figurines" - little women statues from the ancient homonym town of Boeotia. Second comes "Narcissus", narrating the story of a young man who fell in love with his own reflection and drowned himself in the river, based on Chopin's music. The third is called "Furies",based on
