![]() ![]() ![]() This is basically the tone of her memoire. "It was the result of oysters and champagne – the food of Aphrodite." She could take no food except iced oysters and iced champagne.” Then she goes on to say that this is why she began to dance. About her birth she says: “Before I was born my mother was in a great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. The opening of the book was, I admit, entertaining and even a touch humorous. Perhaps it was the peculiar writing style that made the work seem so categorically unrealistic. I feel absolutely terrible for admitting this about her memoire. However, my critique is directed towards her writing (and perhaps her eccentric career claims) not her dance and career achievements.Īlthough her fame is undoubtedly recognized throughout the world, my inner voice tells me that she was a serial confabulist from what I have just read. I know that I am probably going to commit Isadora Duncan sacrilege with this review, so before I begin, and for the record, I would like to state that the world is indebted and grateful for what Isadora Duncan achieved in her lifetime and what she stands for as an artist in the dance world. Wendy Smith -This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. It's her divine passion, her supreme confidence in her own genius that make My Life such fun to read. Duncan is capable of seeing the humor in her rhapsodic immersion in art, but we don't really want her to be realistic and self-deprecating like ordinary mortals. They travel to Greece to worship "in the Sacred Land of Hellas," where they build their very own temple. Duncan and her siblings sleep in a bare Parisian attic, then dance barefoot through the Luxembourg Gardens. And the poor mortals who can never understand her need to be free can at least applaud wildly at her concerts. Men pine for her love (the book's sexual frankness, while hardly startling today, was considered quite scandalous in 1927). ![]() I bring you the dance." In Duncan's rendering of her life, composers fling themselves at the piano and compose new music for her on the spot. Her awesomely self-assured autobiography depicts a woman who while still in her teens tells an eminent theatrical manager (from whom she desperately needs a job), "I have discovered the art that has been lost for two thousand years. Fabulous is the only adjective that comes close to doing justice to Isadora Duncan (1878-1927). ![]()
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