Ninety-nine years ago today, on a cold evening in Nice, a hand-painted silk shawl found the rear wheel of a small French ...

The work of a 20th-century dance innovator inspires four women of the present day in this film, composed like a piece of music by Damien Manivel. By Glenn Kenny Jérôme Bel has decided, for ecological ...

“I have built my life around the feeling of being tipped forward on my toes,” says the mother of modern dance, Isadora Duncan, in the early pages of this biographical novel. At the moment of this ...

Abraham Walkowitz, watercolor of Isadora Duncan in a dance pose (1906-27) (all images courtesy the New York Public Library) Almost all of Walkowitz’s illustrations were left as raw sketches, although ...

Last weekend marked the anniversary of the birth of modern dance pioneer and Oakland native Isadora Duncan. Duncan was born 135 years ago, on May 27, 1877, the youngest of four children, raised by a ...

MARIO RITTER: I’m Mario Ritter with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today Jim Tedder tells about modern dancer Isadora Duncan. JIM TEDDER: Angela Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco, ...

Behind every genius is the figure in the shadows, the lesser light whose stability and sanity let the magic happen. This poor schlub’s story is rarely told. Yet that is the surprise, the hook and the ...

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 ...

Meeting Lori Belilove, founder of the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation, can be eerie for anyone familiar with the mother of contemporary dance. Both women were born in the San Francisco Bay area. Both ...

Los Angeles is famous for its movie premieres. In recent years, the vitality of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Opera Company have also attracted their share of premieres.