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 six Isadora was teaching neighborhood children to...

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 artistic ideals, her modes of physical expression, and her controversial private...

Isadora Duncan (May 27, 1877 – September 14, 1927) was an American dancer. Born Dora Angela Duncan in San Francisco, California, she is considered by many to be the mother of Modern Dance. Although never very popular in the United States, she...

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In the following essay, Loewenthal recounts Duncan's reception by the press in Paris.

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.

In the following essay, Ragona explains Duncan's and Wigman's use of Nietzche's "Dionysian ecstasy" in their dance theories.