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Wild Irish Women: Isadora Duncan
An American pioneer of dance and an important figure in both the arts and history, Isadora Duncan was known as the “Mother of Modern Dance.”
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Oh, body swayed to music,
Oh, brightening glance.
How can we know the dancer from the dance?”
– William Butler Yeats, “Among School Children”
“She was a flame sheath of flesh made for dancing.”
– Carl Sandburg, Breathing Tokens, “Isadora Duncan”
“I dance what I am.”
–Isadora Duncan
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A great fire raged in her house when she was an infant. A fireman raced into the burning room and threw her out an open window into the arms of another fireman. So began the high-pitched drama that was the life of Isadora, a life that ended even more theatrically than the firemen’s game of catch. She lived for only 50 years, but in that short time, she founded modern dance, toppled Victorian sensibility, helped usher in the modernism of the early 20th century, and made some sensational headlines.
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John Martin
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Biography
Angela Isadora Duncan (May 27, 1877 or May 27, 1878 – September 14, 1927), she is considered to be the creator of modern dance. Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 49 or 50, when her scarf became entangled in the wheels and axle of the car in which she was riding. Despite the critics’ mixed reactions, she became quite popular for her distinct style and inspired many visual artists, such as Antoine Bourdelle, Auguste Rodin, Arnold Ronnebeck, and Abraham Walkowitz, to create works based on her.
Early life
Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco, the youngest of the four children of Joseph Charles Duncan (1819–1898), a banker, mining engineer and connoisseur of the arts, and Mary Isadora Gray (1849–1922). Her brothers were Augustin Duncan and Raymond Duncan; her sister, Elizabeth Duncan, was also a dancer. Soon after Isadora’s birth, her father was exposed in illegal bank dealings, and the family became extremely poor.
Her parents divorced when she was an infant, and her mother moved with her family to Oakland. She worked there as a seamstress and piano teacher. From ages six to ten Duncan attended school, but she dropped out, finding it constricting. As her f