ABSTRACT
As familiarity with these increased, it became evident that the strong invocation of Isadora's art brought to life a period which was not archaic Greece, not classic Greece, but Greece in a later decadent period. Her arms were beautiful, and the soft undulations were infinitely charming to a world which knew only the tiresome stiffness of the ballet; but there is not a single example of any work of Greek art before the fourth century which resembles Isadora's dancing. To Isadora it proved to be a powerful, fruitful, but rather indefinite influence. Often the author have seen Isadora stand quite motionless before large audiences for quite a long spell, with her hands over her solar plexus, in the manner she describes. In the preface to the quite thrilling book called Isadora Duncan's Russian Days by Irma Duncan and Allen Ross MacDougall, the authors have written: Unthinking people were confused about Isadora Duncan; so she seemed to them extraordinary and inconstant.
