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- Isadora Duncan (born May 26, 1877, or May 27, 1878, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died September 14, 1927, Nice, France) was an American dancer whose teaching and performances helped to free ballet from its conservative restrictions and presaged the development of modern expressive dance.
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Sep 10, 2024 · Isadora Duncan was an American dancer whose teaching and performances in the late 19th and early 20th century helped to free ballet from its conservative restrictions and presaged the development of modern dance. She was among the first to raise interpretive dance to the status of creative art.
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- Isadora Duncan was a great innovator: her repudiation of artificial technical restrictions and her reliance on the grace of natural movement helped...
- One of four children, Isadora Duncan was raised by her music teacher mother. Duncan had a child by theatre director-designer Gordon Craig and anoth...
- Isadora Duncan rejected the rigidity of ballet and based her dancing on natural movements. Unsuccessful in America, she went abroad, where the patr...
- During the last years of her life, Isadora Duncan lived precariously in Nice on the French Riviera, where she met with a fatal accident: her long s...
Angela Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877, or May 27, 1878 [a] – September 14, 1927) was an American-born dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United States.
Apr 2, 2014 · Isadora Duncan developed an approach to dance that emphasized naturalistic movement. She was a hit in Europe as a performer to classical music and opened schools that integrated dance with...
Apr 10, 2024 · Today, Isadora Duncan is known as a pioneer of dance and many consider her the creator of modern dance. It may therefore come as a surprise that she was in fact highly inspired by Ancient Greece . She considered herself a priestess more than an artist.
Isadora Duncan made two lasting contributions to dance. She liberated herself and those who succeeded her from the constricting paraphernalia of corsets, petticoats, long sleeves, high collars and heavy skirts worn by the women of her day.
Jun 15, 2012 · We remember Isadora Duncan as the creator of modern dance and an early feminist. “The dancer of the future will dance, not in the form of nymph, nor fairy, nor coquette, but in the form of woman in its greatest and purest expression.
Feb 24, 2019 · Isadora Duncan brought modern dance to the world, living (and dying) with her personal tragedy.
