1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:55,520 ISADORA'S CHILDREN 4 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:01,360 Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) is a mythical American dancer 5 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:04,800 who was behind modern dance. 6 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:09,280 On April 19, 1913, the car carrying her children, aged 4 and 6, 7 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,080 accidentally fell into the Seine. Both children drowned. 8 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,720 Isadora never recovered from it. 9 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:21,360 October 21st 10 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,040 After the death of my two children, 11 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,640 I spent my days and nights in the studio with blue curtains. 12 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:39,880 In my grief I was trying to compose a dance, 13 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,480 but I could hardly move. 14 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,400 How I wish this horrible accident had become something of beauty. 15 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,040 I'm working late tonight 16 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,160 Sorry 17 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:15,280 Big kisses 18 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:24,720 October 24th 19 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:33,720 I imagined a mother 20 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,920 carrying her dead child with a slow step, 21 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:39,280 a hesitant step 22 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:42,480 towards the resting place. 23 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,600 I danced the descent to the tomb 24 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,560 and the flight of the spirit ascending, 25 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,120 ascending to the light. 26 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,360 October 27th 27 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,760 November 1st 28 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,600 The next day, at dawn, 29 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,680 I suddenly got up and danced. 30 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:34,160 It was my first dance since the accident. 31 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:54,560 Body signs 32 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:14,600 Take the children by the hand 33 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,400 November 3rd 34 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:24,440 November 5th 35 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,880 Rock the children 36 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:58,840 Caress one last time 37 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,520 November 6th 38 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,000 I feel the heat of the sun. 39 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,640 I feel the warmth of my body. 40 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,680 I look down at my bare legs, 41 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,400 at my soft breasts, 42 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:04,200 at my arms floating in soft waves. 43 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:08,320 And I realize 44 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:12,600 that since the death of my children, this chest 45 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,880 encloses an inexhaustible pain, 46 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,080 that these hands have been forever marked by sadness 47 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,520 and that when I am alone, 48 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,680 these eyes are rarely dry. 49 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,200 November 7th 50 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:32,920 Mother Wednesday, November 28, 2018 51 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,480 Is this where we're doing the show? 52 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,800 No, the show will be in the big hall. 53 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,000 We're just rehearsing here. 54 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:13,680 - Let's get started. - OK. 55 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,120 She was very inspired by ancient Greece. 56 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:57,680 I'll let you browse. 57 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,200 There's a photo of... 58 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,360 I think it's around here. 59 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,240 Here it is. 60 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:21,840 - With her children. - Yes. 61 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,320 Deirdre and Patrick. 62 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,120 That was the year before they died. 63 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,640 What is beautiful here 64 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,800 and which can inspire us 65 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:37,000 is the gestures, laying her arms around them, 66 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:38,920 embracing them. 67 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,680 It reminds me of when her kids come back. 68 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,560 - Yes, before she... - Before she... 69 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,720 That's right. Absolutely. 70 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,840 November 10th 71 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:40,480 - Hello, Manon. - Hello. 72 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,080 - Are you OK? - Yes. 73 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,040 Been here long? 74 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,200 No, not really. 75 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,520 Sorry, I had some trouble on the way. 76 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,600 Turn your palms outwards, please. 77 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:03,880 Give it a try. 78 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:05,960 Upwards, like this. 79 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,240 Try that. 80 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,400 It makes a change. 81 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,680 And upwards. Slipping away... 82 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,720 Hold your arms up, look down. 83 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:18,880 Your feet. 84 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,120 You understand, you grasp what's happened. 85 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,800 Your arms become wings, they come down 86 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:26,600 to cover... 87 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:31,720 Yeah. 88 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,960 Left hand to their heads, right hand to their feet. 89 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,480 They're no bigger than that. 90 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,000 Now it's the right hand 91 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,720 that caresses, that goes towards the head, 92 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,040 starts again with the head. You can do... 93 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,360 Just one thing, but from here, 94 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,640 Here are the feet 95 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,040 and the heads... the feeling of caressing their heads. 96 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,680 But on the other side with your right arm. 97 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,240 Yes. 98 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,800 Then you come back to the head, 99 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,320 you go to the foot... 100 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,360 You take the shroud, you cover them one last time. 101 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,880 You can rock them. 102 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:21,920 Yes. 103 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:32,160 And then you hug them, you want to hold them. 104 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,120 It's better to be in the right direction. 105 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,840 You hold them tight and then... they go away. 106 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,320 And you follow them. Follow them. 107 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,040 The children come back, you look for them. 108 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,320 Your arms rise up. 109 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,160 And now you come back. 110 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,440 Come back, take them in your arms. 111 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:01,800 And then... 112 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,840 You feel dizzy, looking down. 113 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,080 They slipped. No, at your feet. 114 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,760 Right at your feet. Yes. 115 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:13,480 Your arms open, 116 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,080 become wings, they float a little. 117 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,520 Now you have to get on your knees. 118 00:34:21,720 --> 00:34:24,200 We take a step right 119 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:25,960 and bend over. 120 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,320 And as you bend, 121 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:32,280 I want you to imagine the volume we worked on earlier. 122 00:34:32,673 --> 00:34:34,793 Go ahead, lean towards them. 123 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,120 And there's still the volume of the arms, yes. 124 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,880 It's extremely soft. And here too, this arm, imagine the volume. 125 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,480 Unlock your elbow, your elbow isn't tensed. 126 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:49,400 It's not very tense. 127 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,200 OK? And here too, you imagine the volume 128 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:58,000 of what we worked on this morning, these volumes, like a ball. 129 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,000 There's no volume in the arm. 130 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,040 Try it... 131 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:10,360 Try it. 132 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:12,480 Take me in your arms. 133 00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:14,400 Hold me. 134 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,880 I'm the volume. And from here, we move together. 135 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,480 Is that your kids in the photo? 136 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,320 Yes, when they were younger. 137 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,800 Here the audience is quite close. 138 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:08,600 So you might... 139 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,600 see them watching you. 140 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:26,920 When there's an audience... 141 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,000 well... 142 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,000 I feel more comfortable 143 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,600 in the way I dance, actually. 144 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,600 That's interesting. Why is that? 145 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,400 When there's an audience, it helps me. 146 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,920 It helps me to have the people watching me dance. 147 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,120 It helps you... Can you say more? 148 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,400 When I'm in rehearsals, 149 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,120 I dance, but it's just so-so. 150 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:07,600 It's not... 151 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,280 Not everything is... 152 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,280 perfect the first time. 153 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,240 I have to adjust several things. 154 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,640 But when there is an audience, 155 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,360 I pressure myself by thinking... 156 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,680 Well, I tell myself 157 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,360 that I just have to do it. 158 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:32,360 And every time I start dancing in front of the audience, 159 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,080 it works right away. 160 00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:11,240 Excuse me. 161 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:14,320 Hello... 162 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:31,680 "Isadora... 163 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,920 January 1913. 164 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,880 I was dancing that night at Kiev's city theatre. 165 00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:44,560 Towards the end of the show, I suddenly told my pianist: 166 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,560 "Play Scriabin!" 167 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,160 "Why?" he asked. 168 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:53,880 "You've never danced to it." 169 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,880 "I don't know. Play it." 170 00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:01,840 I insisted so much 171 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:04,200 that he finally agreed. 172 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:08,360 I imagined a mother carrying her dead child 173 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:10,640 with a slow step, 174 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,920 a hesitant step towards the resting place. 175 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,680 I danced the descent to the tomb 176 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,200 and the flight of the spirit escaping 177 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,840 from the prison of flesh, 178 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:26,800 and ascending, 179 00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,000 ascending to the light." 180 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,160 Let's carry on, Manon. 181 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:43,720 November 12th 182 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,320 Come on the stage, you don't need shoes. 183 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:56,520 The story is very important, because I want to hear it until then. 184 00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:00,080 That's where it's confused, it's not precise. 185 00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:04,400 You don't take the time, I don't understand what you're doing. 186 00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:06,480 I don't see what's going on. 187 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:12,040 I can understand the rocking, because the gestures tell me. 188 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,880 You bring them, you change direction, I understand that, 189 00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:20,280 because the gestures tell me more. I can see a story. 190 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:24,520 But then, you don't hold them anymore, Why do you move forward? 191 00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:28,600 Why do you stop, then start running? 192 00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,200 What's going on? 193 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:35,920 All your gestures go too fast, I don't understand the story. 194 00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,960 I need it to be present for you, 195 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:43,000 for this story to be told, you tell it to yourself, it exists, 196 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,680 you see the children, project them, visualize them. 197 00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:51,160 Where are they? You see what they do, they make you happy. Why? 198 00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:56,480 The gestures will follow your story, but I need to hear it to be sure 199 00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:00,800 that it's clear to you. Because we can't see it in the gestures. 200 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,040 You're losing the audience 201 00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:07,880 when it's an extremely important place, it's the heart of the solo. 202 00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:12,440 It's there that the tragedy happens. Almost everything is played out. 203 00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:14,680 So if we lose you here... 204 00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:20,040 we don't know... We won't understand the rest, 205 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:23,720 we won't follow you. And all the meaning... 206 00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,280 This point is extremely important. 207 00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:31,520 So I need to hear it, I need you to live it so I can feel it. 208 00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:35,200 For that, you need to tell the story 209 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:40,360 and enrich it and immerse yourself in this story 210 00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:44,800 which is yours, it is your story. You must do it properly. 211 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:49,440 You'll be the only one dancing it, so it has to be rich for you 212 00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:51,880 and precise in the gestures. 213 00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,720 Each gesture has a meaning, 214 00:45:55,880 --> 00:46:00,080 each gesture tells a moment in their story. 215 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:23,280 I can do it. 216 00:46:32,720 --> 00:46:34,520 Why do the children resist? 217 00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,880 They resist, because at first they don't dare. 218 00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:42,280 She helps them... 219 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:50,000 to get over their fear 220 00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,480 or to get over... 221 00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,240 moments that are a bit... 222 00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:58,560 more difficult for them. 223 00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:04,400 Why does the mother collapse? 224 00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:21,200 Because the children are dead. 225 00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,800 What's her last gesture? 226 00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,080 To say goodbye to them. 227 00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:00,960 I like this season. 228 00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:04,120 The colours are beautiful. 229 00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:05,800 That's true. 230 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,320 You don't want the leaves to fall right away. 231 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:13,560 Yeah. 232 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,760 November 16th 233 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:50,720 We're lucky it's sunny. 234 00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,480 See how beautiful the rocks are in the sea? 235 00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:13,720 Yeah. 236 00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,280 - Need a hand? - Yes. 237 00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:17,040 - Let's go back in. - You'll get soaked! 238 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,600 You're the one who'll get soaked! 239 00:51:10,240 --> 00:51:13,800 Why did your son go to England? 240 00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,120 To study English. 241 00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:23,160 He's in high school for a year. 242 00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:25,760 He plays basketball. 243 00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:34,240 What about your daughter? 244 00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:38,040 She's been in Brussels for 3 years. 245 00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:42,720 She's studying theatre. 246 00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:54,280 You're sad? 247 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:57,320 I'm not sad. 248 00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:00,680 I miss them. 249 00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:03,480 But I'm not sad. 250 00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:13,640 Do you know what Isadora did 251 00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:15,680 after her children died? 252 00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:20,760 She tried to start a school 253 00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:22,640 to teach her dance. 254 00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:26,760 It was her lifelong dream. 255 00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:32,880 But the war broke out. 256 00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,960 She said that dance doesn't belong to anyone 257 00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:42,240 but everyone must find their own gesture... 258 00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:45,880 their own way of doing things. 259 00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:54,120 That really touches me. 260 00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:10,240 November 17th 261 01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:48,400 9:30 PM 262 01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:23,400 Hello. 263 01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:26,480 How are you? 264 01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:28,160 It's a bit cold. 265 01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:40,040 Mother 266 01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:12,960 "I didn't invent my dance, it existed long before me... 267 01:13:20,440 --> 01:13:26,320 It had been asleep for centuries and my sorrow woke it." 268 01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:06,360 ISADORA'S CHILDREN 269 01:23:44,880 --> 01:23:47,640 Subtitles: J. Miller, a.s.i.f.