 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Empress-ive struggles; FICTION: Assassinations, uprisings, rebellions, Opium Wars, power struggles and coups galore plague China's last empress in the sequel to "Empress Orchid.".(ENTERTAINMENT)
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Byline: Emily Carter Roiphe
Special to the Star Tribune
Finding the right balance is the challenge built into every historical novel. There has to be enough research to make it feel authentic, but the facts should never overwhelm the narrative.
Historical novelist Anchee Min has walked this particular tightrope with ease and flair; "Empress Orchid" succeeded beautifully. Her sequel, "The Last Empress," stumbles - but honorably so, since she has taken on the task not only of bringing to life the fall of monarchist China but also of revising the ...
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Isadora Duncan Dance: Technique and Repertory.
Magazine article from: Notes
; Isadora Duncan Dance demonstrates the technique and...tradition to pursue her own vision. Isadora Duncan's performances in the first decades...movement style and philosophy that underlie Isadora Duncan's dance. The video does more than...
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Isadora Duncan: The Dances.
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine
; ...first introduced to the dances of Isadora Duncan and the theories of Rudolf von...studio in the 1920s. Her book, Isadora Duncan: The Dances, is the result of...In "Part I--The Dances of Isadora Duncan," which is subdivided into six...
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Books: Shooting bullets at the ballet Her art created modern dance, and her life scandalised four continents. Richard Canning rediscovers a dangerous diva; ISADORA: THE SENSATIONAL LIFE OF ISADORA DUNCAN Peter Kurth Little, Brown, pounds 25, 652pp
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Born in 1877 in San Francisco, Isadora Duncan led an uncharmed but exemplary...adopted, aptly commented that Isadora "could not cope with advancing...left to another, less impatient Duncan - Isadora's lame sister, Elizabeth...
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Life into Art: Isadora Duncan and Her World.
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine
; ...contributed by Doree Duncan, daughter of William Seligmann and Ligoa Duncan and granddaughter of...wife, Aia Bertrand. Isadora was Doree's great aunt...even imagine. Doree Duncan concludes in the book's acknowledgments, "Isadora left her footsteps in...
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Isadora Duncan.(dancer)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine
; Isadora Duncan in her art, as well as her life, embodied...intelligence in the freest body! --Isadora Duncan, The Dance (New York: The Forest...scandalous resonance to her very name--Isadora Duncan? In an age when news traveled slowly...
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Music in the Movement; Mary Sano carries on the Isadora Duncan tradition
Newspaper article from: AsianWeek
; ...Mignon Garland, founder of the Isadora Duncan Heritage Society. Garland toured...Duncan, original students of Isadora Duncan. Sano had studied other kinds...event she produces to commemorate Isadora Duncan's birthday. For the festival...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Books: The great inspirer; Isadora -The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan. By Peter Kurth (Little, Brown, pounds 25).(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...slipped into gory and for Duncan the abyss opened once...truth when she defined Isadora as 'a helpless child...choreographer. In homage to Duncan, Ashton choreographed...Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan. This lovely piece with...
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Crash dance // A mocking tone wrecks Torso's `Isadora Duncan'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...erratic production of "Isadora Duncan Sleeps With the Russian Navy...inspiration from the memory of Isadora Duncan, a modern-dance pioneer...screenwriter's conception of his Isadora character. The real Duncan never emerges. Hewett struggles...
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La danza de Isadora Duncan. (biografía de una proponente de baile novedosa)(TT: The dance of Isadora Duncan) (TA: biography of a proponent of innovative dance)
Magazine article from: Fem
; ...surgimiento de la nueva mujer. Isadora Duncan naci en 1877 en San Francisco y...Prevenci6n del Maltrato de Menores. Isadora tena sus propias ideas sobre el...matrimonio, enviaron una carta a Isadora manifestndole su desacuerdo enformar...
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Dance's `Scandalous' Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham.(Review)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle
; ...But scandal failed to deter Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham from dancing...Caldecott Honor winner Rachel Isadora has written and illustrated a...picture book about her namesake Isadora Duncan. Visually lush yet simple enough...
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