Isadora Duncan

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Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan was an American dancer, whose creation of an expressive dance style based on the ancient Greeks laid the foundations for the modern dancers of the twentieth century.

Isadora Duncan was born Dora Angela Duncan in San Francisco, California, 1877. Isadora's parents were divorced shortly after her birth, and her poor but romantic mother filled her children with the sounds of music and notions of uncoventuality.
Isadora showed an early talent for dance and left school at the age of ten to teach dancing. In 1898 Isadora went with her mother to New York City where she joined August Daly's theatre company as both actor and dancer.

In 1900 Isadora made her debut in London, England where she became interested in recreating the way she felt the Greeks danced, and by 1902 she was performing her own dances and had opened a dance school in Berlin, Germany.

Isadora's movements were said to be "free, flowing movements expressive of inner emotion and inspired by natural phenomenon such as waves and winds, she was fascinated by the Greek ideals of human form and beauty."

From Viewing various pictures of Isadora Duncan I feel it safe to say that she usually performed in a tunic with her fett, arms and legs bare with her long hair unbound.

When Isadora first introduced her style of dance in America she met with strong opposition. The people were used to the rigid and upright classical ballets from Europe, Isadora�s style was then revol...

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