Isadora Duncan’s willful genius as a dancer and a choreographer was built on a very limited technical base, perhaps the most limited for any major figure in theatrical dance after Loie Fuller, the ...

Modern-dance pioneer Isadora Duncan was a quintessentially American creation – a San Francisco-born free spirit whose extravagant life and lurid death almost eclipsed her accomplishments as the first ...

Abraham Walkowitz, watercolor of Isadora Duncan in a dance pose (1906-27) (all images courtesy the New York Public Library) Almost all of Walkowitz’s illustrations were left as raw sketches, although ...

The new “Isadora” starring Russian ballerina Natalia Osipova is based on the life of Isadora Duncan, often called the mother of modern dance. Its origin story, however, starts with “Cinderella.” The ...

A century ago Isadora Duncan stripped off the pointe shoes, corset and vocabulary of classical ballet and created a new and unfettered form — a form that came to be known as modern dance. Flash ...

Last weekend marked the anniversary of the birth of modern dance pioneer and Oakland native Isadora Duncan. Duncan was born 135 years ago, on May 27, 1877, the youngest of four children, raised by a ...

The work of a 20th-century dance innovator inspires four women of the present day in this film, composed like a piece of music by Damien Manivel. By Glenn Kenny Jérôme Bel has decided, for ecological ...

“I have built my life around the feeling of being tipped forward on my toes,” says the mother of modern dance, Isadora Duncan, in the early pages of this biographical novel. At the moment of this ...

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