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ISADORA DUNCAN (1877-1972)，a remarkble visionary, revolutionized dance in the twentieth century, captivating audiences in the United States, Europe and Russia with her passionate, innovative, free-flowing style. Frank and open like her dancing, her famous autobiography describes her total commitment to establishing modern dance as a serious art form, leading the way for other great dance pioneers as Ruth St. Denis, Agnes de Mille, and Martha Graham. Ducan tells of her early enchantment with classical music and poetry and their influence on her techniques, her great successes abroad, and her funding of schools of dance for children in France, Russia and Germany, as well as the love affairs and tragedies in her life.

 

"Isadora was a wild voluptuary, a ture revolutionary. She flouted every tradition... She alone and unhelped changed the direction of her entire art."
——Agnes de Mille
"She wrote as candidly as she spoke, so that her written word conveys the impression of speech. Her memoirs constitute a great document, revealing the truth of her life as she understood it, without reticence or apology or compromise."
——New York Herald Tribune
"SENSATIONAL READING."
——NEW YORK TIMES