December 14, 2001
How Isadora Duncan Lived to Dance
Isadora Duncan's willful genius as a dancer and a choreographer was built on a very limited technical base, perhaps the most limited for any major figure in theatrical dance after Loie Fuller, the specialist in effects of swirling silk and light, who seems to have had no dance technique whatsoever. Does that mean, then, that Duncan's ensuing superstardom emanated mostly from her offstage life?
Peter Kurth, in his new biography, Isadora: A Sensational Life (Little, Brown), addresses
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