Isadora Duncan (1877–1927)
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A native of San Francisco, Isadora Duncan was known as an innovator and a first-generation pioneer of modern dance. A modernist whose lifestyle became even more visible and well known than her dancing, she was a feminist and lived her life as the legend it became. Duncan's dancing was bold and mostra altro innovative. She danced barefoot. Her costume was an adaptation of a Greek tunic, embellished with several colored shoulder scarves. Using natural flowing movements that emanated from her wrist, she weaved and whirled to express the emotions prompted by the music. Although Duncan established schools in Berlin, Paris, Moscow, and London, her dance technique was so improvisational, abstract, and personal that her many imitators were largely unsuccessful. They lacked her daring and dynamic personality. Duncan's accidental death in Paris was a tragedy mourned by the entire dance world. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1916-1918 (Arnold Genthe Collection, LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0394)
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Duncan, Isadora
- Data di nascita
- 1877-05-27
- Data di morte
- 1927-09-14
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, France
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Nice, France
- Luogo di residenza
- Oakland, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
London, England, UK
Paris, France - Attività lavorative
- dancer
writer
pianist
music teacher
artistic director (ballet company) - Relazioni
- Esenin, Sergei (husband)
Gordon Craig, Edward (lover)
Acosta, Mercedes de (lover) - Breve biografia
- With her pioneering natural movement dance technique, free-flowing clothing and bare feet, and rejection of the conventional Victorian lifestyle, Isadora Duncan was truly an emancipated woman ahead of her time. Her influence continues to be felt in modern dance.
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Read from February 09 to 17, 2014
The basis for the film 'Isadora' (1968) starring Vanessa Redgrave.
Description: My Life, the classic autobiography first published just after Duncan's death, is a frank and engrossing life account of this remarkable visionary and feminist who took on the world, reinvented dance, and led the way for future great American modernists Ruth St. Denis, Agnes de Mille, and Martha Graham.Documenting Duncan's own life as a dancer and as a woman—from her enchantment with classical music and poetry as a child in San Francisco and her intense study of classical Greek art in Athens, through the great strides she made in teaching, founding schools, performing, and collaborating with international artists, to her notorious love affairs and the tragic deaths of her own children—My Life reissued here is still as extraordinary as the woman who wrote it more than sixty years ago.
The other book that has quite a bearing on the film is Isadora Duncan: An Intimate Portrait
The screenplay for the film is by Melvyn Bragg where Bragg is pure Drag in his own novels, yet shows such flair in other fields.
Sergei Yesenin
Yesenin and Duncan
From wiki: Duncan's fondness for flowing scarves was a contributing factor to her death in an automobile accident in Nice, France, at the age of 50. The shawl was hand-painted silk by the Russian-born artist Roman Chatov, and was a gift from her friend Mary Desti, the mother of American film director Preston Sturges. Desti, who saw Duncan off, reported that she had asked Duncan to wear a cape because it was cold out, and the car was an open-air one, but Duncan would only agree to wear the shawl.
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Read from February 09 to 17, 2014
The basis for the film 'Isadora' (1968) starring Vanessa Redgrave.
Description: My Life, the classic autobiography first published just after Duncan's death, is a frank and engrossing life account of this remarkable visionary and feminist who took on the world, reinvented dance, and led the way for future great American modernists Ruth St. Denis, Agnes de Mille, and Martha Graham.Documenting Duncan's own life as a dancer and as a woman—from her enchantment with classical music and poetry as a child in San Francisco and her intense study of classical Greek art in Athens, through the great strides she made in teaching, founding schools, performing, and collaborating with international artists, to her notorious love affairs and the tragic deaths of her own children—My Life reissued here is still as extraordinary as the woman who wrote it more than sixty years ago.
The other book that has quite a bearing on the film is Isadora Duncan: An Intimate Portrait
The screenplay for the film is by Melvyn Bragg where Bragg is pure Drag in his own novels, yet shows such flair in other fields.
Sergei Yesenin
Yesenin and Duncan
From wiki: Duncan's fondness for flowing scarves was a contributing factor to her death in an automobile accident in Nice, France, at the age of 50. The shawl was hand-painted silk by the Russian-born artist Roman Chatov, and was a gift from her friend Mary Desti, the mother of American film director Preston Sturges. Desti, who saw Duncan off, reported that she had asked Duncan to wear a cape because it was cold out, and the car was an open-air one, but Duncan would only agree to wear the shawl.
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I adore Isadora, and obviously she did too. Modest she was not, but I can hardly blame her. She certainly had a personality and a very unique view on various issues. The writing style is sometimes simply annoying and unconvincing. Dancing in the womb, fed oysters and born under Venus guidance? I can scarcely believe she believed it, but perhaps she did, as her life was rather strange. That is not to say I believe it, though, and she often comes across as not quite in touch with reality. In the best way though, and various parts of her life were rather fantastical. All in all, I still adore Isadora. She is inspiring, realistic or not.… (altro)
isadora's writing style is a little over the top but her life was too. so what. she did it her way. she was devastated by the death of her kids. she doesn't even tell us how they drowned. her memoir was very sad and chaotic after that.
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Tenía mis dudas. Amo el ballet y me sentía como una hereje leyéndola jajajja. Pero me encantó. Y puedo entender su posición frente a la danza clásica. No tengo dudas que cualquier persona que ame la danza, sea cual sea su estilo, amará este libro.… (altro)