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Article: Isadora Duncan.(dancer)(Brief Article)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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Isadora Duncan in her art, as well as her life, embodied the progressive forces of the new century.
Oh, she is coming, the dancer of the future: the free spirit who will inhabit the body of new women; more glorious than any woman that has yet been ... the highest intelligence in the freest body!
--Isadora Duncan, The Dance (New York: The Forest Press, 1909)
How could a young, self-educated woman, born in 1877 in San Francisco, make such an impact on sophisticated Europe shortly after the turn of the twentieth century? Why, almost seventy-two years after her death, is there artistic, political, and scandalous resonance to her very name--Isadora ...