Modern-dance pioneer Isadora Duncan was a quintessentially American creation – a San Francisco-born free spirit whose extravagant life and lurid death almost eclipsed her accomplishments as the first ...

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.

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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 ...

A century ago Isadora Duncan stripped off the pointe shoes, corset and vocabulary of classical ballet and created a new and unfettered form — a form that came to be known as modern dance. Flash ...

As she did in Lili at Ballet (1993), Isadora presents an understated story introducing ballet basics—such as girls’ and boys’ apparel and the classic five positions—deftly streamlining both text and ...

Isadora Duncan, who revolutionized the world of dance with her natural, free-flowing style, will come to life at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts Aug. 10-12 in the world premiere of “Isadora,” a two ...

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 ...