My life
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My life
14.99 €
Isadora Duncan. This name sounds like a challenge, a hymn to freedom, the embodiment of a passionate love of dance—and a love of life. She idolized beauty, preached naturalness, and rejected convention. She saw dance not as gymnastics, but as prayer, a way to communicate with the cosmos. Her barefoot performances provoked both admiration and scandal, and her personal life was as turbulent and unpredictable as her dance improvisations...
Isadora Duncan completed the manuscript of her autobiographical book, My Life, just months before her tragic death in Nice on September 14, 1927. By 1930, the book was published in Soviet Russia, in a remarkable translation by an unknown author, preserving for readers its remarkable style, simultaneously lyrical and matter-of-fact, and the original's gentle humor. In her autobiography, Isadora Duncan, a world-renowned dancer, theorist, and practitioner of the "dance of the future," and a woman with a truly remarkable life story for her time, captures the artistic world of America, Europe, and Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—a world conquered by the unprecedented courage and determination of this daring muse of the new dance. But these lines also offer a frank account of the life of a woman unsuited to following the beaten path, who experienced the tragic death of her children, passionate love, and bitter separations, but who, despite everything, never lost her love for people and her love for life.
Our edition, in the 1930 translation, has been corrected for censorship and other cuts. The appendix contains the text of the brochure "Dance of the Future" (1908).
Isadora Duncan completed the manuscript of her autobiographical book, My Life, just months before her tragic death in Nice on September 14, 1927. By 1930, the book was published in Soviet Russia, in a remarkable translation by an unknown author, preserving for readers its remarkable style, simultaneously lyrical and matter-of-fact, and the original's gentle humor. In her autobiography, Isadora Duncan, a world-renowned dancer, theorist, and practitioner of the "dance of the future," and a woman with a truly remarkable life story for her time, captures the artistic world of America, Europe, and Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—a world conquered by the unprecedented courage and determination of this daring muse of the new dance. But these lines also offer a frank account of the life of a woman unsuited to following the beaten path, who experienced the tragic death of her children, passionate love, and bitter separations, but who, despite everything, never lost her love for people and her love for life.
Our edition, in the 1930 translation, has been corrected for censorship and other cuts. The appendix contains the text of the brochure "Dance of the Future" (1908).
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