Isadora duncan

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Isadora Duncan was a combination of talent, rebelliousness, and tragedy. She revolutionized classical ballet and she also dared to express herself freely.

With her “serpentine dance” — a show of swirling silk and rainbow lights — Loie Fuller became one of the most celebrated dancers of the fin de siècle. Rhonda K. Garelick explores Fuller’s unlikely stardom and how her beguiling art embodied the era’s newly blurred boundaries between human and machine.

There is something Messiah-like about the advent of Isadora Duncan (1877-1927). She emerged seemingly out of nowhere, was so completely transformative, and touched so many people. And there is even…

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Isadora Duncan

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