"The Truth of My Being in Gesture and Movement": The Ego and the Body in Modernist Writing on Dance in Isadora Duncan's My Life

From: PSYART | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Sanchez-Pardo, Esther | Copyright information

The paper examines Isadora Duncan's revolutionary dance style in the context of modernism's backlash against the machine age. Duncan reached back to the Greek chorus and Greek mythology for a way of harmonizing the individual and society. Her autobiography, My Life, explores the narcissistic origin of her aesthetic and her struggle to reconcile identity and fusion with the maternal sources of identity and sexuality.

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