Isadora Duncan: A Dance Prodigy or Ridiculous Charlatan?
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In the early 1900s, fat, middle-aged, highly sexed women weren’t supposed to dance, bare their breasts, or take lovers half their age. But Isadora Duncan did all of that and more while she was leading her free-range, tragic, melodramatic life 90 years ago. The sight of Isadora Duncan dancing barefoot and as scantily clad as a woodland nymph, brought large crowds to theaters and concert halls throughout Europe. Duncan’s private life, quite as much as her dancing, kept her name in newspaper headlines owing to her constant disregard of social taboos and sexual escapades.
Strongly held opposing opinions of Isadora ranged from those who adored Duncan and described her work as spectacular, to those who flatly described her as rubbish. During the last years of her life, Isadora Duncan was a somewhat pathetic figure, living precariously with little money on the French Riviera, where she met with a fatal accident: her legendary long scarf became entangled in the rear wheel of the car in which she was riding, and she was strangled.
This article includes a detailed biography, vintage photographs, a short 45-second video (the only known piece of film showing her dancing) and a photo-gallery of the melodramatic Isadora Duncan.
Strongly held opposing opinions of Isadora ranged from those who adored Duncan and described her work as spectacular, to those who flatly described her as rubbish. During the last years of her life, Isadora Duncan was a somewhat pathetic figure, living precariously with little money on the French Riviera, where she met with a fatal accident: her legendary long scarf became entangled in the rear wheel of the car in which she was riding, and she was strangled.
This article includes a detailed biography, vintage photographs, a short 45-second video (the only known piece of film showing her dancing) and a photo-gallery of the melodramatic Isadora Duncan.
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