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This autobiography covers the life of Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), whose innovative modern dance and liberated lifestyle captivated the American, European and Soviet cultural scenes and prepared the way for subsequent American modernists such as Ruth St Denis, Agnes de Mille and Martha Graham. The book explores Duncan's own life as a dancer and as a woman. It describes important events and issues that range from her enchantment with classical music and poetry as a child and her study of classical Greek art in Athens, through the progress she made in teaching, performing and collaborating with international artists, to her love affairs and the tragic deaths of her own children.

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Isadora was a wild voluptuary, a true revolutionary. She flouted every tradition. . . . She alone and unhelped changed the direction of her entire art. --Agnes de Mille

Isadora was a wild voluptuary, a true revolutionary. She flouted every tradition. . . . She alone and unhelped changed the direction of her entire art. -- Agnes de Mille

Isadora was a wild voluptuary, a true revolutionary. She flouted every tradition. . . . She alone and unhelped changed the direction of her entire art.--Agnes de Mille Fascinating, even sensational reading.

"Fascinating, even sensational reading.-- ""New York Times"" Isadora was a wild voluptuary, a true revolutionary. She flouted every tradition. . . . She alone and unhelped changed the direction of her entire art.--Agnes de Mille"

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Isadora Duncan was one of the primary founders of modern dance. Born in California, she lived throughout Europe from the age of twenty-two until her death at fifty

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