1877-1927

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1877-1927

Isadora

In 1913 famed American dancer, Isadora Duncan, faces the horror of losing both her children in a terrible car accident. Adored by fans world-wide, Isadora faces the wild-fire-like spread of gossip surrounding her personal life as she grieves the loss of her beloved children and slowly spirals to the brink of madness.

Isadora Duncan

her life, her art, her legacy
1984

Isadora Duncan

revolutionary dancer
1995
Biography of the innovative dancer who became controversial when she set up a school of dance in Moscow and married a Russian poet.

Barefoot dancer

the story of Isadora Duncan
2001
Describes the life of the modern dancer who created a spontaneous, free-form dance style accompanied by literary readings and non-dance music.

Isadora Duncan

2003
Rich illustrations fill this biography of early-twentieth-century American dancer Isadora Duncan, which describes her humble childhood, her innovations in dance, and her tragic death.

Done into dance

Isadora Duncan in America
2002
A biography of turn-of-the-century dancer Isadora Duncan, describing and analyzing stories about her life and theory of dance, discussing the response of American audiences to her performances, and looking at the ideological implications of her practice.

Isadora

portrait of the artist as a woman
1986

Isadora Duncan

a graphic biography
2008
A hand-drawn biography of pioneering modern dancer Isadora Duncan, covering her youth in California during the late nineteenth century, her influence on dance as a fine art, her rise to popularity in Europe, the scandal and controversy that followed her, and her shocking death.

Isadora Duncan

1988
Traces the life of the American dancer who helped free classical ballet from its traditional restrictions and paved the way for modern expressive dance.

Isadora dances

1998
A brief biography of the woman whose unique style of dance was not readily accepted by audiences at the turn of the twentieth century.

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