“let them come forth with great strides, leaps and bounds, with lifted forehead and far-spread arms, to dance.”
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Isadora Duncan
Angela Isadora Duncan was an American-born dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United States. Born and raised in California, she lived and danced in Western Europe, the U.S., and Soviet Russia from the age of 22. She died when her scarf became entangled in the wheel and axle of the car in which she was tr…
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culture · American dancer and choreographer (1877–1927) · dancer · choreographer · autobiographer · screenwriter · writer · also Isadora Duncan, Angela Duncan, Angela Isadora Duncan, Izadora Dënkan, Dora Angela Duncan, Aĭsedora Dunkan
Born 26 May 1877 · Died 14 September 1927 · Q483512
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2026· 4 entries
Heraldo de León: Isadora Duncan invita a las mujeres leonesas a poner el autocuidado en el centro
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2016· 1 entry
Lily-Rose Depp portrayed Duncan in The Dancer, a French biographical musical drama of dancer Loie Fuller
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1987· 1 entry
Was inducted into the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame
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1981· 1 entry
Was the subject of a ballet, Isadora, written and choreographed by the Royal Ballet's Kenneth MacMillan, and performed at Covent Garden
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1976· 2 entries
Frederick Ashton created a short ballet entitled Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan on Lynn Seymour, in which "Ashton fused Duncan's style with an imprint of his own"; Marie Rambert claimed after seeing
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Saturday Night Live parodied Isadora Duncan in a Great Moments in Herstory sketch during Season 1, Episode 15
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1965· 1 entry
A youthful Isadora Duncan was portrayed by Kathy Garver in the television show Death Valley Days
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1927· 4 entries
In Nice, France, Duncan was a passenger in an Amilcar CGSS automobile owned by Benoît Falchetto, a French-Italian mechanic
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Died 1927-09-14.
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Career landmark: funeral.
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“I could have played the part of Saint Joan. I ought to have played it. I have the ample figure, the hardy physique of a farm-servant. Joan was a buxom creature. Yet she is always played by thin little actresses.”
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1924· 2 entries
Duncan composed a dance routine called Varshavianka to the tune of the Polish revolutionary song known in English as Whirlwinds of Danger
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To the West and leave the school to her protégée and adopted daughter, German-born Irma Doretta Henrietta Erih-Grimm Duncan (1897—1977)
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1922· 1 entry
Officially married, and Duncan took Soviet citizenship
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1921· 2 entries
After the end of the Russian Revolution, Duncan moved to Moscow, where she met the poet Sergei Yesenin, who was eighteen years her junior
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Duncan's leftist sympathies took her to the Soviet Union, where she founded a school in Moscow
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1915· 1 entry
Aboard the RMS Lusitania on its ill-fated voyage, but historians believe her financial situation at the time drove her to choose a more modest crossing
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1914· 1 entry
Duncan moved to the United States and transferred her school there
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1911· 1 entry
The French fashion designer Paul Poiret rented a mansion – Pavillon du Butard in La Celle-Saint-Cloud – and threw lavish parties, including one of the more famous grandes fêtes, La fête de Bacchus on June 20, 1912, re-cr
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1910· 1 entry
Duncan met the occultist Aleister Crowley at a party, an episode recounted by Crowley in his Confessions
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1902· 1 entry
Loie Fuller invited Duncan to tour with her
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1901· 1 entry
Where she soon met Duncan, and the two became inseparable
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1898· 1 entry
When the British passenger steamer SS Mohegan ran aground off the coast of Cornwall
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1896· 1 entry
Duncan became part of Augustin Daly's theater company in New York, but she soon became disillusioned with the form and craved a different environment with less of a hierarchy
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1877· 1 entry
Born 1877-05-26.
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