“I have built my life around the feeling of being tipped forward on my toes,” says the mother of modern dance, Isadora Duncan, in the early pages of this biographical novel. At the moment of this ...

Behind every genius is the figure in the shadows, the lesser light whose stability and sanity let the magic happen. This poor schlub’s story is rarely told. Yet that is the surprise, the hook and the ...

The work of a 20th-century dance innovator inspires four women of the present day in this film, composed like a piece of music by Damien Manivel. By Glenn Kenny Jérôme Bel has decided, for ecological ...

Last weekend marked the anniversary of the birth of modern dance pioneer and Oakland native Isadora Duncan. Duncan was born 135 years ago, on May 27, 1877, the youngest of four children, raised by a ...

Some life stories were made for the stage, and the dance legend Isadora Duncan's was one of those. She was born in San Francisco in 1877 to a free-spirited, atheist mother and a father who made and ...

Segerstrom Center for the Arts and the original dance commission "Isadora". The story of a woman who many call the Mother of Modern Dance, Isadora Duncan. Segerstrom Center for the Arts commissioned ...

ORINDA — Call us suckers for dance, but there’s something intensely gratifying about watching Lois Flood waft barefoot across the Orinda Library community hall stage. Yes, she’s not a spring pup. And ...

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Last week, I spoke about my love for the majorly stylish and beautifully minded erotic writer Anais Nin, and this week my Style Muse is another historical beauty: Dancer Isadora Duncan. With a ...

In her autobiography, My Life, the legendary American dancer Isadora Duncan wrote, "The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet." She ...