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Article: Isadora Duncan: The Dances.
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
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Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck was first introduced to the dances of Isadora Duncan and the theories of Rudolf von Laban in a Philadelphia dance studio in the 1920s. Her book, Isadora Duncan: The Dances, is the result of her lifelong mission to bring together these two major artistic influences. Although the author acknowledges the assistance of others in the preparation of this material--Hortense Kooluris and Julia Levien for the dances, Harry Hewitt for the music--both the introductory text and the actual notation of exercises and dances attest to Chilkovsky Nahumck's highly idiosyncratic approach to both Duncan and Laban. The title page states that the book was fully reviewed ...
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Article: Life into Art: Isadora Duncan and Her World.
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December 27, 1993 ;
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... ... direct lineage from Loie Fuller through Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis to Martha Graham ... the attendant. Our subject here is Isadora Duncan ( 1877-1927), the American dancer ... new short biography, Life Into Art: Isadora Duncan and Her World (Norton, 199 pp ...
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