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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sweeping nostalgia meets occult menace in this three-part homage to dance pioneer Isadora Duncan Isadora Duncan was a founding figure of modern dance. Replacing ballet’s pointe shoes, tutus and ...

“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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