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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I adore Isadora, and obviously she did too. Modest she was not, but I can hardly blame her. She certainly had a personality and a very unique view on various issues. The writing style is sometimes simply annoying and unconvincing. Dancing in the womb, fed oysters and born under Venus guidance? I can scarcely believe she believed it, but perhaps she did, as her life was rather strange. That is not to say I believe it, though, and she often comes across as not quite in touch with reality. In the best way though, and various parts of her life were rather fantastical. All in all, I still adore Isadora. She is inspiring, realistic or not. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher SeriesGallimard, Folio (3160) Is abridged inInspired
The visionary choreographer and dancer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) not only revolutionized dance in the twentieth century but blazed a path for other visionaries who would follow in her wake. While many biographies have explored Duncan's crucial role as one of the founders of modern dance, no other book has proved as critical--as both historical record and vivid evocation of a riveting life--as her autobiography. From her early enchantment with classical music and poetry to her great successes abroad, to her sensational love affairs and headline-grabbing personal tragedies, Duncan's story is a dramatic one. My Life still stands alone as "a great document, revealing the truth of her life as she understood it, without reticence or apology or compromise" (New York Herald Tribune). Now, in this fully restored edition, with its risqu? recollections and fervent idealism, My Life can be appreciated by a new generation. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)793.32092The arts Recreational and performing arts Indoor games and amusements Social, folk, national dancing Clog dancing [theatrical dancing now 792.8]LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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Read from February 09 to 17, 2014
The basis for the film 'Isadora' (1968) starring Vanessa Redgrave.
Description: My Life, the classic autobiography first published just after Duncan's death, is a frank and engrossing life account of this remarkable visionary and feminist who took on the world, reinvented dance, and led the way for future great American modernists Ruth St. Denis, Agnes de Mille, and Martha Graham.Documenting Duncan's own life as a dancer and as a woman—from her enchantment with classical music and poetry as a child in San Francisco and her intense study of classical Greek art in Athens, through the great strides she made in teaching, founding schools, performing, and collaborating with international artists, to her notorious love affairs and the tragic deaths of her own children—My Life reissued here is still as extraordinary as the woman who wrote it more than sixty years ago.
The other book that has quite a bearing on the film is Isadora Duncan: An Intimate Portrait
The screenplay for the film is by Melvyn Bragg where Bragg is pure Drag in his own novels, yet shows such flair in other fields.
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Yesenin and Duncan
From wiki: Duncan's fondness for flowing scarves was a contributing factor to her death in an automobile accident in Nice, France, at the age of 50. The shawl was hand-painted silk by the Russian-born artist Roman Chatov, and was a gift from her friend Mary Desti, the mother of American film director Preston Sturges. Desti, who saw Duncan off, reported that she had asked Duncan to wear a cape because it was cold out, and the car was an open-air one, but Duncan would only agree to wear the shawl.
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