Isadora Duncan

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Isadora Duncan (San Francisco, May 26th 1877 - Nice, September 14th 1927) is a American Danseuse which revolutionized the practice of the dance by a return to the model of the Greek ancient figures. By its large freedom of expression, which privileged spontaneousness, the naturalness, it brought the first bases of the modern Danse European, at the origin of the Contemporary dance. Influenced by her brother Raymond Duncan on a return to the Hellénisme and the worship of the body, she will want to give again all her place with the beauty, with the harmony of the body, daring exhiber almost naked, only dissimulated few veils.

Biography

Founder of several schools of dance to the the United States and in Europe, in Russia in particular, where its revolutionary ideal led it, it married there in 1922 one of her more great authors, the poet Sergueï Essenine, in a union which lasted only little of time.

Jules Grandjouan, draftsman and revolutionist known for his drawings in the Plate with Butter , was his/her lover and made drawings of its dance.

It undergoes many misfortunes. His/her two children die in 1913, drowned inside a car fallen into the the Seine, while Sergueï Essenine leaves it and finally commits suicide in 1925.

Isadora Duncan dies in 1927, strangled by the veil which it wore and which was pulled by a wheel of its own car. It rests with the Parisian cemetery of the Père Lachaise.

Theory

Isadora Duncan is one of the first to be reacted compared to the body constrained by the Tutu or the Pointes. She dances naked feet, even radically naked, and outside. She is also one of the first to be freed from the Musique and to find her own musical quality internal.

Actually, much of other dancers seek and find new languages with the assistance of theorists of the dance and the music. The codes of the ballet dancing are peeled and in fact new codes reappear but well rather a style, a specific language to each choreographer. Seek, called into question of the codes and conventions are at the origin of this revival in the dance.

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