Isadora Duncan
1) My life
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My Life, the classic autobiography first published just after Duncan's death in 1927, is a frank and engrossing life account of this remarkable visionary and feminist who took on the world, re-invented dance, and led the way for future great American modernist dancers and choreographers like Agnes de Mille. 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...
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Los escritos sobre danza de Isadora Duncan constituyen una de las más brillantes reflexiones de una coreógrafa sobre su trabajo. Su valor se acrecienta si tenemos en cuenta que fue precisamente Duncan quien, con mayor consciencia y decisión que Loie Fuller o Ruth St. Denis, convirtió la danza libre, no basada en los códigos de ballet, en un arte. El arte de la danza, tal como fue definido y defendido por Duncan, nació al mismo tiempo que el...
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2018.
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English
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From the beginning, American dance has been an exciting fusion of many disparate influences, with European traditions of ballet and social dancing encountering Native American rituals and African American improvisations to create something new and extraordinary. In this landmark collection, dance critic Mindy Aloff brings together an astonishing array of writers—dancers and dance creators, impresarios and critics, and enthusiastic literary observers—to...
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