What does STEEP mean here? Now, a pioneer of modern dance was Isadora Duncan, who was born in 1878. Isadora Duncan did study ballet briefly as a child, but she quickly developed her own unique style,

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What does STEEP mean here? Now, a pioneer of modern dance was Isadora Duncan, who was born in 1878. Isadora Duncan did study ballet briefly as a child, but she quickly developed her own unique style, which she called free dance. And by age fourteen, she was teaching her free dance to young children and giving recitals. Her early dance technique was loosely based on the natural movements of children, running, skipping, acting out stories, also on motions from nature, waves crashing onto shore, trees swaying in the wind. Her expressive gestures were motivated from within rather than from being dictated by strict technique. Duncan also wore her hair down, ballerinas typically wear their hair in a tight bun behind the head. And instead of the short steep skirts and rigid toeshoes worn by ballerinas, Duncan wore loose, flowing tunics, and she dance bare foot. Now, that was something her audiences had never seen before. What does STEEP mean here?

2016年6月19日 07:29

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In my view, it's unlikely to mean expensive in this context. The context is the physical appearance of the clothes, not their cost. It's more likely to be physically steep, like a steep hill. The skirt comes down from the waist at a steep angle close to the body.

2016年6月19日

I have to agree with you, especially after being given the whole context.

2016年6月19日

I would agree with Michael, it's referring to the cut of the skirt. There is a clue there, it is talking about the skirts normally worn by ballerinas. You can always search for images of the type of skirt ballerinas wear if you're having trouble picturing it.

2016年6月19日