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Isadora Duncan

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born

May 27, 1877 in San Francisco, California, The United States

died

September 14, 1927

gender

female

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Photography

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Isadora Duncan was an American dancer. She was born Angela Isadora Duncan in San Francisco, California and is considered by many to be the mother of Modern Dance. Although never very popular in the United States, she entertained throughout Europe.

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Books by Isadora Duncan

Average rating: 4.08 · 170 ratings · 27 reviews · 5 distinct works

	My Life 4.11 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1927 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Art of the Dance 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	Your Isadora: The Love Story of Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig by Isadora Duncan, Francis Steegmuller (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:
	El Arte De La Danza Y Otros Escritos/ The Art of Dance and other Writtings 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	My rating:

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Quotes by Isadora Duncan

“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
― Isadora Duncan, Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan

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“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”
― Isadora Duncan

tags: dance , dancing , writing

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“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it”
― Isadora Duncan

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