![]() Duncan was referred by dance critics as ‘the mother of modern dance’. Her dance had movement such as hopping and skipping, free, flowing hands, lots of jumping, graceful turns, long extended arms and lots of walking and running. Her dancers also wore tunics because they freed the body and revelled movement emphasised and natural movement dance style. The main characteristics in Duncan’s dances was that the dancers danced barefoot. Some of the roles Duncan played were a fairy in ‘Mid Summers night’ and she played a quartet girl in ‘The Giesha’. After Duncan’s death 3 of her 6 adopted children continued to teach modern dance. She founded her dance company, The Isadorables, which combined dance with other learning styles. She saw dance as an art form not a source of entertainment.ĭuncan founded dance companies in Russia and Germany. Duncan inspiration to create dance was to discover the beautiful, rhythmical motions of the human body’. She stated that “dance should be similar to the ancient greeks, natural and free. She made a speech called dance of the future, where she talked about how future dance should be performed. Duncan published her book, My Life, in 1927.ĭuncan viewed her dance style free flowing and feminine. Duncan then adopted children Internationally. Angela Isadora Duncan (or September 14, 1927) was an American dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance, who performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the US. Duncan’s 2 children, Deirdre and Patrick, including her nurse drowned and died when the car that they were traveling in went over at bridge into Seine river in Paris, France. Yesenin had metal heath issues and committed suicide in 1925. Her professional career started at Chicago, 1896, at the Daly Company.ĭuncan married Serge Yesenin in 1922 but unfortunately the marriage didn't last. Duncan lived in Chicago and New York before she moved to the UK to further enhance her professional dance career. ![]() Duncan choreographed her dances and performed them at wealthy peoples houses before she became widely successful. When Duncan was 6 she started teaching dance in to kids in her neighbourhood and When she was 10 her classes were very large and successful. Her parents divorce when she was a child and was raised by here mother, who was a piano teacher.ĭuncan’s brother, Raymond Duncan, and her studied greek mythology and visual iconography which helped her style of movement. Finally, Duncan's contribution to the founding and development of modern dance as an alternative theatre dance genre to ballet is characterised and her overall contribution to the evolution of Western theatre dance stated.Duncan was born in San Francisco and died on the 14 September, 1927 due to her scarf got catching the back wheel of a sports car she was riding in. Her allegiance to a classical Greek-derived set and costume, preference for the music of the Romantic classical composers as accompaniment, commitment to an eclectic range of subject matter (with particular emphasis on socially relevant themes) and her pursuit of a harmonious, lyrical style are identified and discussed as crucial elements in Duncan's overall vision of dance as expression. Her reverence of the body and all "natural" phenomena, her confident relocation of the body "centre" along with her willing acceptance and exploitation of gravitational forces are seen to be fundamental factors in her work. ![]() Duncan is found to have made several important innovations. Fourthly, the results of the analysis are studied in conjunction with Duncan's own writings. Thirdly, a choreographic analysis is carried out on Duncan's oeuvre. These first two stages provide the documentary basis for the study, generate the descriptive source materials from which it is possible to gain access to Duncan's choreography and promote the discussion of the contexts of her life and the influences upon her work. Isadora is known as the mother of modern dance, founding the New System of interpretive. Secondly, a chronology and two choreochronicles are presented. Isadora Duncan was born on this day in San Francisco California. ![]() ![]() Firstly, a comprehensive collection of written, visual and aural materials is collated. A specifically devised methodology is employed which, in its successive stages, compensates for the lack of extant Duncan dances and allows the discussion of her work to be undertaken. On the basis of a working hypothesis, that Duncan had a consistent set of values which underpinned her work and were manifest in her choreography, Duncan's life and work is examined and her particular innovations identified. Isadora Duncan (b.1877 d.1927) is acknowledged as one of the main founders of the modern dance theatre genre yet her choreography per se is both unresearched and generally dismissed. ![]()
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