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...
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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 ...
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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 appreciatio...
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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 (187...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 dichotomou...
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Today is Friday, Sept. 14, the 257th day of 2007. There are 108 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key was inspired to write his poem "The Star-Span...
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The tenants of studios high above Carnegie Hall were already angry about plans to evict them and gut part of the world famous concert building.But they turned furious when they found out the son-in...
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Paul Poiret was a pioneer in modern fashion, doing away with the corset and embracing the notion of personal style. He was among the first to use draping in dressmaking and he had no problem puttin...
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The poster for Reds, Warren Beatty’s 1981 epic about American radicals in the early 20th century, has a single, striking image: a couple embracing at a train station. It’s not the summa...
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The poster for Reds, Warren Beatty’s 1981 epic about American radicals in the early 20th century, has a single, striking image: a couple embracing at a train station. It’s not the summa...
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Take it from one who knows: Cartoonists lead unexciting lives. Dreaming up gags is a solitary business, with none of the camaraderie enjoyed in collaborative work. No curtain calls. No ovations. An...
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Take it from one who knows: Cartoonists lead unexciting lives. Dreaming up gags is a solitary business, with none of the camaraderie enjoyed in collaborative work. No curtain calls. No ovations. An...
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New York Fashion Week is totally phat. Sorry, make that fat. As in: fat-obsessed.
The current international are-models-too-thin? brouhaha has turned the week into the world’s largest discuss...
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Duncan, Isadora (1877-1927)
Isadora Duncan
Critical Essay by Isadora Duncan
Today in history - Sept. 14
