Isadora Lives: Dancers Continue the Legacy.(Biography)

From: World and I | Date: February 1, 2004| Author: Jaeger, Katherine | Copyright information

Katherine Jaeger is a freelance writer living in Shamokin, Pennsylvania.

Isadora Duncan's groundbreaking art still delights audiences through the efforts of four faithful generations of proteges. Thanks to them, the "mother of modern dance" lives on.

There are no films of Isadora Duncan dancing. The "mother of modern dance" believed that motion picture cameras could never properly capture her art. In the silent movie theaters of her day, she saw "nothing but ...

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