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Isadora Lives: Dancers Continue the Legacy |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Katherine Jaeger |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2004 |
| Size: 2,883 Words, 18,289 Characters |
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There are no films of Isadora Duncan dancing. The "mother of modern dance" believed that motion picture cameras could never properly capture her art. In the silent movie theaters of her day, she saw "nothing but flickers" and knew her dance could never be understood without the music that inspired it. In 1927, when Russian filmmaker Ivan Nikolenko finally extracted a commitment from the fifty-year-old Duncan to be filmed using sound technology, it was too late. On the evening of September 14, while she was riding in an open-roofed Bugatti sports car in Nice, France, her long, flowing scarf became entangled in its spokes and she was killed.
Fortunately for history, many others did succeed in recording what they witnessed in her art. Ever since the young San Franciscan began performing in...
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...semble: www.miamidance.com/Isadora.htm
San Francisco, Calif.--Mary Sano and Her Duncan Dancers: www.duncandance.org/home2.html
New York, N.Y.--Isadora Duncan Foundation for Contemporary Dance: www.isadoraduncan.org/About--Lori/about--lori.html
Isadora Duncan International Institute: www.isadoraduncaninternationalinstitute.org/main.html
Elkton, Md.--Dance Matrix: www.dancematrix.org
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