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Done into dance : Isadora Duncan in America

By Duncan , Isadora; Duncan , Isadora; Daly , Ann; Duncan , Isadora

Book information

Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0-8195-6560-1, 9780819565600, 9780819570963, 0819570966
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31070003 bytes)
Edition
Wesleyan ed
Pages
266\289
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

This cultural study of modern dance icon Isadora Duncan is the first to place her within the thought, politics and art of her time. Duncan's dancing earned her international fame and influenced generations of American girls and women, yet the romantic myth that surrounds her has left some questions unanswered: What did her audiences see on stage, and how did they respond? What dreams and fears of theirs did she play out? Why, in short, was Duncan's dancing so compelling? First published in 1995 and now back in print, Done into Dance reveals Duncan enmeshed in social and cultural currents of her time — the moralism of the Progressive Era, the artistic radicalism of prewar Greenwich Village, the xenophobia of the 1920s, her association with feminism and her racial notion of "Americanness."

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