Not only was she irreverent in the dance world, but her personal life was full of scandals as well, at least for the standards of her time. However, in no time she sparked admiration in experts and critics. A revolutionaryĪs you’d might expect, people often criticized her in the early years of her career. Tutus, veils, and rigid movements from classical dance were left behind. She improvised and came up with movements during every performance. She also let her hair loose and danced to the rhythm of arrangements that weren’t made for dancing. Her previous experience and these observations shaped her style, which changed the history of dance forever.ĭuncan then started to go on stage barefoot and with a Greek-style gown. She adopted some of the postures she saw in sculptures into her dance routines.
Isadora dedicated lots of time to visiting great European museums, and especially admiring Greek art. Thus, the Duncan family settled in London and, later on, in Paris. She convinced her family to go with her, even when, back then, migration happened the other way around: people from Europe migrated to the United States. Perhaps it was her admiration for European classical music that encouraged Isadora Duncan to travel to Europe. Her father, who had never gone back to the family, tragically died in 1898 in a shipwreck. In the Big Apple, young Isadora Duncan managed to find a job at a theater company. But a fire broke out in their house, leaving them homeless, so they had to move again, and this time they decided to go to New York City. Later, the family moved to Chicago, where Isadora studied classical dance. Thus, when Isadora was only 10 years old, she decided to leave her studies in order to work at the school with her brothers, teaching young children to dance. The two older siblings worked as dance instructors at their mother’s school. The family went through a tough financial situation, so Isadora’s mother started teaching piano lessons in order to cover the expenses and, later on, she founded a dancing school. She was the last of four children, and, sadly, her father left the family when she was very young.
Her father, Joseph Charles, was a loan officer and her mother, Mary Isadora Gray, a music teacher. Her real name was Angela Isadora Duncan, and she was born in San Francisco, California, on May 27th, 1877.
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