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	Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation
		Isadora Duncan's genius inspired other modern dancers of her time to create their own individual styles; the far-reaching influence of Isadora's dance, however, was not limited to the stage.
		Isadora Duncan died as dramatically as she had lived, when her long trailing scarf was entangled in the spokes of a wheel of a new Bugatti sports car.
		Isadora was a thinker as well as poet, gifted with a lively poetic imagin- ation, a radical defiance of ”things as they are,” and the ability to express her ideas with verve and humor.
	www.isadoraduncan.org /about_isadora.html (1021 words)

	Isadora Duncan 1878-1927
		Isadora was a quaint child, a strange mixture of practical common sense and worldly sophistication, and she was a dreamer like her father.
		"Isadora Duncan," he proclaimed, "seems to me as innocent as a child dancing through the garden in the morning sunshine and picking the beautiful flowers of her fantasy." So the master politician became poet, and Isadora danced and was forgiven her sins.
		Isadora Duncan, the rebel, had won her rebellion and lost all that was worth the fight.
	www.sfmuseum.org /bio/isadora.html (2870 words)

	Isadora Duncan - Picture - MSN Encarta
		American dancer Isadora Duncan rebelled against the rigidity of classical ballet and advocated emancipated self-expression.
		Duncan, who idealized ancient Greece, often danced barefoot in flowing draperies reminiscent of Greek goddesses.
		This photograph shows Duncan, dressed in a scarf and gown based on ancient Greek fashion, posing in an arbor.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461527693/Isadora_Duncan.html (49 words)

	Isadora Duncan St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		The great American icon of dance, Isadora Duncan, who rose to prominence early in the twentieth century and met a tragic death at age 50, was ahead of her time in both her artistic ideals, her modes of physical expression, and her controversial private life.
		Isadora and her siblings became involved with movement and dance early on, and taught the waltz and the mazurka to their friends.
		Duncan had found her way out of the "low art" of club and theater dance to a new, high form of dancing, whose form was influenced by Greek statues, classical music, and poetry, and whose physical disciplines had their roots in calisthenics.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200339 (1016 words)

	DuncanDancers - 10 Myths About Isadora Duncan Dance
		Isadora insisted that her dance was like a visual manifestation of the entire orchestra – her legs expressed the rhythm and her upper body the melody.
		Isadora had established several schools during her career, and a school of dance and life for all children, all people, was one of her greatest aims.
		Isadora was an infamous personality in her day, causing shockwaves in her manner of dress (she rejected the binding corsets and high-topped shoes of the Victoria/Edwardian era), her attitude about motherhood and marriage (she had three children out of wedlock), her notorious love affairs, Bolshevik overtones and wild lifestyle (drinking and parties galore!).
	www.duncandancers.com /10myths.html (2857 words)

	Isadora Duncan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Duncan often wore scarves which trailed behind her, and this caused her death in a freak accident in Nice, France.
		Isadora Duncan was cremated, and her ashes were placed in the columbarium of Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France.
		Isadora and Duncan are quite unlucky, which is a reference to Isadora Duncan's ill-fated life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isadora_Duncan (1469 words)

	DuncanDancers - About Isadora Duncan
		Isadora Duncan is known as the “mother of modern dance.” She revolutionized dance at the turn of the 20th Century, taking the three “Bs” of dance at that time – Ballet, Ballroom and Burlesque – and creating an entirely new, more expressive dance form on a higher plane of artistic integrity and acceptance.
		Isadora was profoundly impacted by the tragic deaths of her children in 1914 in Paris, when they and their governess were drowned in the Seine River during a car accident.
		Isadora caused great controversy in the American press and audiences when she arrived for a tour in America in the early 1920s with her Russian husband, red hair, red costumes and bare flesh.
	www.duncandancers.com /about.html (694 words)

	Isadora Duncan from the CD Rom Shaping San Francisco
		Isadora Duncan, born in San Francisco in 1877, was possibly the most influencial advocate of modern dance internationally in the twentieth century.
		Duncan gave expressionist dance words through her books (My Life, The Art of Dance), speeches, and letters to the newspapers: "What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life" Duncan declared in The Mentor.
		Hardships in Duncan's life inspired her vision, which primarily was a free school for children which she believed would be the lever to move the world: "When I speak of my School, people do not understand that I do not want paying pupils; I do not sell my soul for silver.
	www.shapingsf.org /ezine/womens/duncan/main.html (773 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| Celebrating the influence of Isadora Duncan
		Duncan has gone down in history as a hard act to follow - a one-off original who, from mixed motives of exhibitionism and evangelicalism, believed she could change the world.
		Duncan was a natural mover and she had reserves of obsessive energy.
		But it was Duncan who proved that dance could be taken seriously outside the ballet academy and that a solo woman could take charge of her career.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1152654,00.html (1549 words)

	Celebrate 100 Years of Modern Dance! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Duncan is best known for her natural technique based upon daily movements such as walking, running, skipping and leaping.
		Duncan's motivation for dance was to "express the feelings and emotions of humanity" and thus her dance movements emanate from the soul to become an embodiment of individuality and extreme passion.
		Duncan's mission in life was to counteract the materialistic influences of civilization that held the power to zap the inspiration (spiritual power and grace) she believed was inherent in all children.
	www.terrywilson.com /Isadora.htm (376 words)

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		Duncan was the first American dancer to develop and label a concept of natural breathing, which she identified with the ebb and flow of ocean waves.
		Duncan was the first American dancer to define movement based on natural and spiritual laws rather than on formal considerations of geometric space.
		Duncan was the first American dancer to rigorously compare dance to the other arts, defending it as a primary art form worthy of "high art" status.
	www.pitt.edu /~gillis/dance/isadora.html (729 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Duncan, Isadora
		Duncan is known as the "mother of modern dance," but even ballet was influenced by the radical élan of her ideas.
		Duncan was the child of the radically transformative era at the end of the nineteenth century.
		Duncan's influences were the movements she found in nature and the passion of classical Greek drama.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/duncan_i.html (813 words)

	Aint No Way to Go: Isadora Duncan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to dispatches from Nice Miss Duncan was hurled in an extraordinary manner from an open automobile in which she was riding and instantly killed by the force of her fall to the stone pavement.
		Affecting, as was her habit, an unusual costume, Miss Duncan was wearing an immense iridescent silk scarf wrapped about her neck and streaming in long folds, part of which was swathed about her body with part trailing behind.
		As she took her seat in the car neither she nor the driver noticed that one of the loose ends fell outside over the side of the car and was caught in the rear wheel of the machine.
	www.aarrgghh.com /no_way/duncan.htm (344 words)

	isadora-duncan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Isadora's speech in 1903 received a great deal of publicity and there was an outpouring of support for her ideas.
		Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco on May 26, 1877, as the fourth child of Joseph Duncan and wife, Mary Isadora Grey.
		Isadora did not speak of 'Duncan Dance.' She spoke simply, with great reverence, of 'The Dance.' The art of the dance was sacred for her.
	www.meaus.com /isadora-duncan.htm (2715 words)

	Isadora Duncan 1878-1927
		Isadora was a quaint child, a strange mixture of practical common sense and worldly sophistication, and she was a dreamer like her father.
		"Isadora Duncan," he proclaimed, "seems to me as innocent as a child dancing through the garden in the morning sunshine and picking the beautiful flowers of her fantasy." So the master politician became poet, and Isadora danced and was forgiven her sins.
		Isadora Duncan, the rebel, had won her rebellion and lost all that was worth the fight.
	www.sfmuseum.com /bio/isadora.html (2870 words)

	Isadora Duncan Biography
		Isadora Duncan was born in Oakland, California in 1877.
		Isadora's genius was appreciated by her family when she was very young, but her revolutionary ideas on dance were not well accpeted in America.
		When Isadora was in her teens, the family moved to Europe, where her genius was recognized.
	www.dancewriting.org /library/duncan/prelude/prelude03.html (339 words)

	Upcoming Events
		Isadora gave recitals at the homes of society ladies, and she and Elizabeth taught dancing to children while her mother played the piano.
		After Isadora’s death, girls from the Moscow school would tour the United States, guided by Irma Duncan, one of Isadora’s six original pupils, until the Russian girls were recalled to the Soviet Union, when they were replaced on tour by American Duncan pupils.
		Isadora’s lyrical works were notable for their lightness, and for the long, flowing undular movement of arms and body.
	www.pav.org /marysano/Isadora.html (1203 words)

	COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION Isadora Duncan 1998 Cosmic Player Plate
		Isadora Duncan rejected the constraints of formal ballet and devised her own unique lyrical free-form style of dance.
		Isadora was born in San Francisco, the youngest of four children.
		Enigmatic and paradoxical to the end, Isadora Duncan's life exhibits the very complex choreography that is the life of the modern artist.
	www.cosmicbaseball.com /duncan8.html (1259 words)

	Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation
		The Isadora Duncan dance technique as taught by world-renowned Duncan authorities Lori Belilove and Company is a beautiful, free flowing art form perfect for all ages.
		Duncan was an innovator in the field of dance, revolutionizing the concept worldwide of what it means to be a dancer.
		She was the first dancer to articulate the need for dancers to educate themselves, to be broad thinkers, to study history and question the norm.
	www.isadoraduncan.org /school.html (917 words)

	Isadora Duncan Summary
		The American dancer and teacher Isadora Duncan (1878-1927) is considered one of the founders of modern dance.
		Isadora Duncan was born Dora Angela Duncan on May 27, 1878, in San Francisco.
		The great American icon of dance, Isadora Duncan, who rose to prominence early in the twentieth century and met a tragic death at age 50, was ahead of her time in both her artistic ideals, her modes of physical expression, and her controversial private l...
	www.bookrags.com /Isadora_Duncan (239 words)

	Isadora Duncan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Isadora danced for many audiences, and they thought she was a 'nice' dancer, but her style of dance and costume were not accepted in the theater world.
		Isadora danced for hundreds and hundreds of people all over Chicago and New York City, but just as soon as Isadora was popular, she became unpopular, and her family was broke again.
		Isadora also finally gained acceptence in the United States, after President Theordore Roosevelt said she was, "as innocent as a child".
	www.whyville.net /smmk/whytimes/article?id=185 (447 words)

	Isadora Duncan's Web Links
		Mary Elizabeth Bioren (Elizabeth Duncan) (1871-1948) is born on Nov. 8 as the oldest of four children of Joseph and Dora Gray Duncan in San Francisco, California, USA (Elizabeth died in Tubingen near Stuttgart, Germany in 1948).
		Isadora goes to Russia with Craig to have performances in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kiev in Feb. The director of the Moscow Art Theatre Konstantin (Constantin) Sergeevich Stanislavsky (Stanislavski) (1863-1938) comes to see her performance in Moscow on Feb. 6.
		Isadora decides to publish her memoirs to solve her financial problem and bring her pupils in Moscow to Paris (First she wanted to publish articles about her dance, but nobody was interested in it).
	www11.plala.or.jp /i-duncanslinks (4926 words)

	Amazon.fr : My Life: Livres en anglais: Isadora Duncan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Duncan and her siblings sleep in a bare Parisian attic, then dance barefoot through the Luxembourg Gardens.
		Duncan is capable of seeing the humor in her rhapsodic immersion in art, but we don't really want her to be realistic and self-deprecating like ordinary mortals.
		An account of her life in her own words, Isadora Duncan's life is one containing the most illustrative content and value.
	www.amazon.fr /My-Life-Isadora-Duncan/dp/0871401584 (445 words)

	FC-New York - Spotlight On - Dances by Isadora
		Mission: Dances by Isadora, inc. directed by Patricia Adams and Catherine Gallant, is a non profit tax exempt organization dedicated to preserving the repertoire and technique of the legendary "mother of modern dance", Isadora Duncan, and creating programming which includes historic and contemporary dance.
		Isadora Duncan's work prepared the ground and planted the seed for much of what has grown to become modern and contemporary dance.
		DANCES BY ISADORA is a non-profit, tax exempt organization dedicated to the preservation of the repertoire and technique of Isadora Duncan through the medium of performance and educational workshops.
	fdncenter.org /newyork/spotlight/ny_spotlight_100801.html (1173 words)

	Isadora Duncan - Death By Scarf
		Isadora spent many hours playing and dancing upon the beach, and even taught dance classes to younger children as a way to earn a little extra money for the struggling family.
		The financial drain of her schools (schools were also established in Russia and Paris at various points in her life) forced Isadora to tour and perform considerably, leaving her sister Elizabeth in charge of the schools and pupils.
		Tragically, Isadora's life was cut short in 1927 in an accident along the Riveria - she was strangled when her scarf got caught in a wheel.
	www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews/isadoraduncan.htm (390 words)

	Isadora Duncan, Aime Semple McPherson --- H. L. Mencken
		La Duncan (posthumously, alas!) devotes a large part of her volume to shameless bragging about her drabbing; La McPherson (still alive, glory to God!) devotes at least a third of hers to prove that she is chaste.
		Isadora, simply loved to prance around in a shift; all the rest was afterthought.
		Isadora lived and died without anything properly describable as an education, but she was quick, womanlike, to take color from her surroundings, and so she picked up a great deal of profound prattle, and some of it she unloaded into her book.
	www.ralphmag.org /menckenZN.html (1703 words)

	Isadora Duncan
		Isadora Duncan, the "Mother of Modern Dance," was born on May 27, 1878, in San Francisco, California.
		In her teens, Isadora Duncan performed in Chicago and New York City, taking part in many vaudeville shows and also starring as a fairy in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
		Today Isadora Duncan is known as the "Mother of Modern Dance." She introduced a unique style of dancing which included wearing Greek chitons, having bare feet, loose hair styles, and using exaggerated, theatrical movements.
	library.thinkquest.org /05aug/00160/n_isadoraduncan.html (284 words)

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