Does anybody know who Isadora Duncan is, and if so could you please give me some info on her???

Question

Isadora Duncan was a lady who changed the laws of dance along time ago.

Answer 1

Born in 1878 died1927. She was a dancer. She rebelled against the classical form of Ballet for her own form of freedom of expression. She was greatly influenced by ancient Greek culture and this showed in her dance costumes. She liked long, loose, flowing robes and usually danced barefoot. She was born in San Francisco and had great professional success in Europe. She lived and danced abroad for most of her carrier and established a schools of dance for children in France, Germany and Russia.

She liked wearing longs flowing robes in her own personal life too. She was especially fond of long, long aviator scarfs that were popular in the 1920's. This lead to her death when she was driving a car and her long long scarf got caught in the wheels of her car and strangled her to death.

Answer 2

Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 - September 14, 1927) was an American dancer.

Born Dora Angela Duncan in San Francisco, California, she is considered by many to be the Mother of Modern Dance. Although never very popular in the United States, she entertained throughout Europe, and moved to Paris in 1900. There, she lived at the apartment hotel at no. 9, rue Delambre in Montparnasse in the midst of the growing artistic community gathered there. She told friends that in the summer she used to dance in the nearby Luxembourg Garden, the most popular park in Paris, when it opened at five in the morning.

Personal life,
Career,
Isadora Duncan in Culture,
Photos
and Weblinks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadora_Duncan

Answer 3

Not that long ago, really. Modern Dance is only 100 years old. My boss danced for Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey.

Isadora kicked off her ballet shoes and discarded her corset and danced across America all the way to Europe and finally to Russia.

She was one of the 'first' modern dancers but people like Mary Wigman, Ruth St. Denis, Loie Fuller all were doing much the same thing. I am sure that Isadora Duncan danced for Loie Fuller in France.

And she married Singer, a very rich man of sewing machine fame ...and indeed, died tragically from her scarf getting caught in the wheels of her car.

Answer 4

maximum noticeably, Duncan become the challenge of a ballet, Isadora, written and choreographed in c51ce410c124a1edb5e4b97fc2af3998c51ce410c124a1edb5e4b97fc2af39 via the Royal Ballet's Kenneth MacMillan, and achieved at Covent backyard.[c51ce410c124a1edb5e4b97fc2af39c51ce410c124a1edb5e4b97fc2af39] whilst She Danced, a point play approximately Duncan's later years via Martin Sherman, gained the c51ce410c124a1edb5e4b97fc2af3999c51ce410c124a1edb5e4b97fc2af39 night common Award (superb actress) for Vanessa Redgrave. A Hungarian musical consistent with this play become produced in Budapest in 2008.

Answer 5

There is a movie about her. She is considered the mother of modern dance. She would dance barefoot wearing a cloth or nothing at all. Most of her moves were inspired by water. She felt that water made her free. She mostly lived by the water and died in a fatal car accident. She was wearing a scarf while riding in an open car and the scarf blew in the wind and became tangled in the wheel. As the car went the scarf tightened and strangled her to death.

Answer 6

Isadora Duncan thought that ballet was very restricting and limiting... she invented new moves... a new way of expressing oneself through dancing. In Ballet for example your feet have to be in a certain position... your arms also, but Isadora invented movements such as instead of feet in the first position in ballet turned outwards- feet were now allowed to point straight forward- instead of walking stylishly with touching the ground with the tip of your foot first- now walking in dance could be done with touching the ground with your heal first- just like we normally walk..... Jazz and Modern Dance (mixture of Jazz and Ballet) are based on her teachings.

Answer 7

She likes dancing.

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadora_Duncan.

This is a Wikipedia link that has basic info on her