
And now he’s dead of coronavirus.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/world/africa/aurlus-mabele-dead-coronavirus.html
Source: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014700731/
To dance is to learn from the acts of approaching and penetrating stillness what it is to move, and to love.
Sources:
http://oldadvertising.tumblr.com/image/174875282308. Date of original publication 1921. Photoshopped to restore contrast and color balance.
“Marguerite Agniel in a Buddha position with her legs crossed.” De Mirjian Studios, about 1929. Photoshopped only to remove blemishes. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/a55ztwxc
Here in what I hope is a clickable link is Loie Fuller in 1905, when she was smiting the sensibilities of such as Auguste Rodin and William Butler Yeats.
Loie Fuller (1905) [silent short film]
And here she is on her return tour in 2016. Marmoreal now as an image by Rodin, she has gone static at last, and her beauty no longer needs to scowl with the effort of becoming.
Source of the Lumière Brothers video clip: YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dda-BXNvVkQ