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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 risque recollections and
fervent idealism, My Life can be appreciated by a new generation.
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.
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