My Life
Autobiography
By: Isadora Duncan
Date: 1927
Source: Duncan, Isadora. My Life. New York: Liveright Publishing Co., 1927; 1995, 154–163.
About the Artist: Isadora Duncan (1878–1927) is regarded as the mother of modern dance, famous for dancing barefoot in simple Greek robes. She was born in 1878 in San Francisco, California, as Dora Angela Duncan. Performing for audiences by age twelve, she made her dazzling New York debut in 1899. She became famous in Europe, and she died as spectacularly as she lived. In 1927, while speeding along in a Bugatti sports car in Nice, France, her long scarf became entangled in the car's wheels and strangled her.
Introduction
Isadora Duncan's sensational life was marked by much hardship and tragedy. In her childhood, her father, in a state of financial ruin, abandoned the family and left Isadora's mother to raise three young...
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