ABSTRACT
Isadora Duncan (1878–1927) was a dancer born in San Francisco who developed her theories of interpretative dancing, based on Greek forms and modern aesthetic thought during her long residence in Europe. This was against the whole tradition of the ballet. She travelled all over the world with her school of children and was notorious for her free way of life. Her autobiography My Life, 1927, from which this extract is taken is noted for her frank revelations. Her children died in tragic circumstances and she herself died in a car accident in the South of France.
