With Duncan one had an overt celebration of the body, the use of Greek themes and symphonic music, the introduction of political and social themes. And a dancer she was, the most innovative of her time. For despite a life that even actress Vanessa Redgrave could not fully capture in the film Isadora (1969), it is as a dancer that Duncan must be seen. Here one finds many of the qualities that would always mark the personality of Isadora Duncan-the precociousness, the narcissism, the sense of destiny, and above all the love of dance. If people ask me when I began to dance I reply, "In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne-the food of Aphrodite." She could take no food except iced oysters and iced champagne. Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. The character of a child is already plain, even in its mother's womb. Even the first chapter began audaciously: In 1927 one of the most flamboyant autobiographies of the 1920s was written. (1908), Paris, U.S., (1909), Paris (Gluck's Orphée), New York (Wagner) (1911), Rome (1912), Russia, Paris (with pupils, the Isadorables, 1913), New York (with Isadorables, 1914), New York (1915), Paris, New York, South America (1916), New York (with Isadorables), San Francisco (1917), San Francisco (1918) Paris twice (second engagement with Isadorables), Athens (1920), Paris (with Isadorables), Belgium, the Netherlands, London, Soviet Union (1921), U.S., including New York, Boston, Middle West, Brooklyn (1922), New York, Paris, Moscow, other Soviet cities (1923), Ukraine, Moscow, Berlin (1924), Paris (1927). Petersburg (Iphigénie), London, New York (Beethoven's Seventh Symphony), Boston, Washington, D.C. Petersburg (Beethoven), Moscow, Kiev, Germany, Brussels, Netherlands, Stockholm (1905), Warsaw, Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavia (1906–07), St. Went on dance tours with Loie Fuller troupe in Berlin, Leipzig, and Munich (1901) began solo performances in Vienna, Budapest (1902), Berlin, Paris, Vélizy, various German cities (1903), Athens, Vienna, Munich, Berlin (Aeschylus' The Supplicants all with Greek boys' chorus), Paris (Beethoven Soirée), Bayreuth (Tannhäuser), St. Born Angela Isadora Duncan on May 27, 1878, in San Francisco strangled by her shawl in a freak accident in Nice, France, on Septemdaughter of Mary Isadora (Gray) Duncan (erstwhile piano and dance teacher) and Joseph Charles Duncan (engaged in sporadic businesses) married Sergei Esenin (a poet), on (divorced) children: (with Gordon Craig) Deirdre (with Eugene Singer) Patrick Augustus. American dancer, the most prominent of her time, who invented the "New System" of improvised movements interpretive of poetry, music, and the rhythms of nature.
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