![]() ![]() At her death, Duncan was a Soviet citizen. According to dispatches from Nice, Miss Duncan was hurled in an extraordinary manner from an open automobile in which she was riding and instantly killed". As The New York Times noted in its obituary: "Isadora Duncan, the American dancer, tonight met a tragic death at Nice on the Riviera. One of these scarves caused her own death. He left her in 1923, and hanged himself two years later.ĭuncan liked long, flowing scarves. Duncan married poet Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925) in 1922. The car rolled across the road, down the bank and into the river. He got out to hand-crank the engine, but forgot to put the brake on. The children were in a car with their nanny when the car stalled as the driver tried to avoid a collision. Both her children were killed in a strange accident on the River Seine in 1913. The schools did not last long, but Duncan had admirers who have continued her influence to the present day.ĭuncan's private life was tragic. She started dance schools in Moscow, Berlin and Paris. At different times she lived in Paris, London and other European cities. She went to the Soviet Union in 1922, but left in less than two years. A bisexual who had two children but did not marry either of their fathers, she became a communist, and boasted about it. Dances involved simple runs, skips and jumps, big gestures and mime. ![]() It was inspired by nature, and by ancient Greek sculptures. Her 'free dance movement' was based on simple, flowing movements of the body. She preferred natural movement, instead of what she called the artificial movements of ballet. Isadora Duncan and husband Sergei Yesenin, 1923 Tomb of Isadora Duncan at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Parisĭuncan was born in San Francisco, California. Duncan as the first fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream. ![]()
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