Dancescape.(Brief Article) From: Dance Magazine | Date: April 1, 2000| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2000 Dance Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Isadora Duncan

BEFORE MARTHA and Mr. B, before Mary Wigman, before Denishawn, indeed, even before Fokine and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, there was Isadora Duncan. Admired in her day by composers, painters, poets, even the stars of the Imperial Russian ballet, Isadora was dance's first true original. She stripped dance of every artifice: corset, ballet slippers, and technique, dancing defiantly to the great composers, notably Beethoven and Wagner. For two decades, with a staggering single-mindedness, she cut a swath across Europe, America, and Russia, sharing her visionary ...

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