Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it. .Isadora Duncan
About This Quote
When Jacques Prevert wrote this song it was the early 1950s. A time when women were not allowed to wear pants or show their legs in public. The song “Oh Woman, Come Before Us” was his call for women to dance again. Women were supposed to be pure and innocent, not sexy and alluring.
And that is what made men fall in love with them. Prevert wanted to see the simple “unconscious pure body of a woman,” one that would allow men to be able to “see the line and harmony of the body beneath,” one that would make women feel “the sweetness of life,” which is what they lacked most in those days. He wanted them to “give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance” and this is what he witnessed them doing in their own simple unselfconscious way.
No one should be ashamed of dancing again as it brings joy and happiness to those who watch it and experience how it makes them feel good about themselves and uplifts them.
Source: Art Of The Dance
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