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Duncan, Isadora (1877-1927)
The great American icon of dance, Isadora Duncan, who rose to prominence early in the twentieth century and met a tragic death at age 50, was ahead of her time in both her ...
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The American dancer and teacher Isadora Duncan (1878-1927) is considered one of the founders of modern dance.Isadora Duncan was born Dora Angela Duncan on May 27, 1878, in San Francisco. By the age of...
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In the following introduction to My Life, Duncan explains her difficulties writing an autobiography.
I confess that when it was first proposed to me I had a terror of writing [My Life]. Not that my li...
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In the following review, Mencken excoriates Duncan's autobiography, her dancing, and her lifestyle.
[My Life] I assume, was planned as the first of two volumes. It stops short with the fair (an...
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In the following essay, Guggenheimer discusses Duncan's dancing in the context of poetry and painting
One may well be reproached for introducing metaphysics into the study or the appreciation o...
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In the following essay, Rosemont praises Duncan's revolutionary approach to her art and her life.
Dancer, adventurer, revolutionist, ardent defender of the poetic spirit, Isadora Duncan (1877-1...
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In the following essay, Loewenthal recounts Duncan's reception by the press in Paris.
The importance of France in the formulation of Isadora Duncan's artistic image was emphasized to me ...
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In the following essay, Francis examines the ways in which Duncan contributed, through her theories about the female body in motion, to women's liberation and the modernist temperament.
Many in...
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In the following essay, Ragona explains Duncan's and Wigman's use of Nietzche's "Dionysian ecstasy" in their dance theories.
Ecstatic movement is of a dichotomous n...
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Duncan, Isadora (1877-1927)
Isadora Duncan
Critical Essay by Isadora Duncan
