"Your Isadora": The love story of Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig

Arts & Photography

Duncan, Isadora

Performing Arts

Vintage Books

My Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Variously described as "mad", "inspired", "an eccentric", and "a genius", Isadora Duncan was a great exponent of freedom in her life and her art, the dance. It may seem extraordinary to us now, but when this book was first published it was banned. It is hard to believe that it was thought indecent. Her life was perfectly romantic in a world so alien to our own. "All that is necessary to make the world a better place to live in is to love," she said.

Abacus Little, Brown

1927. An account of her life in her own words, Isadora Duncan's life is one containing the most illustrative content and value. She thought the story of her life was "fitted for the pen of a Cervantes, or Casanova." She made the purest attempt at the life of adventure. She states her art as a dancer is just an effort to express the truth of her Being in gesture and movement.

My Life 1927

Kessinger Pub Co

My Life (American Biography Series)

History

Reprint Services Corp

My life

Liveright

Unquestionably brave, creative, and erudite, the free spirit Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) captivated the American, European, and Soviet cultural scenes with her innovative modern dance and un-self-conscious lifestyle.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.

Humor & Entertainment

A remarkable account of a wildly artistic life, finally restored to its unexpurgated form, with a revealing new introduction by Joan Acocella. 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 risqué recollections and fervent idealism, My Life can be appreciated by a new generation.

Essay, Memoir. How can we write the truth about ourselves? Do we even know it? Isadora Duncan asks, in her Short Statements. Including letters, statements, poems, memoirs, short essays, drawings, photographs, and rants, this volume tells Isadora Duncan's own truth about herself through words she wrote and spoke during her lifetime. Starting with reminiscences of her San Francisco childhood and developing such themes as politics, communism, the transformative force of dance, love, education and women's emancipation, this book provides a lively and entertaining view of its feisty, sharp-witted author. ISADORA SPEAKS is a tremendously provocative and informative book. Here she is, Isadora herself. Passionate, sincere, moving, impractical, illogical and maddening. But alive. And it's quite wonderful to be brought so close to this gigantic personality. (--Agnes de Mille)

Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

City Lights Books

This outstanding collection of the great dancer's heretofore uncollected writings and speeches gives us a vivid new perception of her importance as an original and radical thinker. Starting with reminiscences of her San Francisco childhood, Isadora Speaks features her outspoken views on America, revolutionary Russia, education and the arts, life with Russian poet Serge Esenin, love, woman's emancipation, and dance as a radical force capable of transforming the world and changing life. Prefaced by dance scholar Ann Barzel, this new edition also includes an updated foreword by Franklin Rosemont on Isadora's extraordinarily diverse and always expanding influence, and fifteen new illustrations.

Isadora Speaks: Writings & Speeches of Isadora Duncan

Leaders & Notable People

Charles H. Kerr

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