hence .....
Having read more about her, I doubt I would slot her into that category. Perhaps - Amazing Women / Women who danced / Women who moved ahead of the pack etc.
Personally I admire her for her amazing spirit, and as with other feminist women, she blazed our trail. "What trail?" our daughters may ask. Another day, another blog, but believe me, "Baby, we have come a long way."
The famous poet and writer Carl Sandburg in his poem, Isadora Duncan: wrote:
"The wind? I am the wind.
The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon.
Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am.
Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea?
I dance what I am." Isadora Duncan
ps - I had a personal 'Isadora moment'. With my burnt orange scarf around my neck, having bought G his delicious salad at Cafe Balmoral, an unsuspecting male stood on the end of my trailing scarf. Suddenly, I felt an alarming tightening around my neck.
What is the ending to this story?
Clara
Then - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Isadora Duncan
Born - 1877 San Francisco, California, U.S. Nice, France Field - Dance and choreography
Died - 1927 (aged 50)
Movement - Modern dance
Isadora Duncan was a dancer, considered by many to be the creator of modern dance. Born in the United States, she lived in Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. In the United States she was popular only in New York, and then only later in her life. She performed to acclaim throughout Europe.
Duncan's fondness for flowing scarves was the cause of her death in a freak automobile accident in Nice, France. Duncan's large silk scarf, while still draped around her neck, became entangled around one of the vehicle's open-spoked wheels and rear axle, breaking her neck.
She was a pioneer of 20th-century American dance, often credited with moving dance away from strict formal structures and toward more free-flowing forms of personal expression. She wore Grecian-style gowns, often performed barefoot, and startled audiences by employing such everyday human movements as skipping and running.
An Unconventional Life
In 1913, both children, with their nurse, drowned in an accident on the Seine River. They were returning home after a lunch with Isadora and Paris Singer.
In 1922, she married Sergei Yesenin, a Russian poet who was eighteen years her junior. Yesenin was also an alcoholic whose drunken rages brought Isadora negative publicity. Within a year, he returned to Russia where he suffered a mental breakdown and was institutionalized. Upon his release, he died under mysterious circumstances on December 28, 1925. Isadora was a bisexual and had lesbian relationships with the poet Mercedes de Acosta and the writer Natalie Barney.
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