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Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World is a BBC Television film based on the life of the American dancer Isadora Duncan first broadcast on 22 September 1966. The film was directed and produced by Ken Russell and written by Sewell Stokes and Russell.
Isadora: Directed by Ken Russell. With Vivian Pickles, Peter Bowles, Alexei Jawdokimov, Murray Melvin. The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as "part genius and part charlatan".
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- Biography
- Ken Russell
- 1966-09-22
Angela Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 or May 27, 1878 [a] – September 14, 1927) was an American-born dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the US. Born and raised in California, she lived and danced in Western Europe, the US and Soviet Russia from the age of 22.
Jun 29, 2024 · Isadora Duncan (born May 26, 1877, or May 27, 1878, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died September 14, 1927, Nice, France) was an American dancer whose teaching and performances helped to free ballet from its conservative restrictions and presaged the development of modern expressive dance.
- Sewell Stokes
- Isadora Duncan was an American dancer whose teaching and performances in the late 19th and early 20th century helped to free ballet from its conser...
- Isadora Duncan was a great innovator: her repudiation of artificial technical restrictions and her reliance on the grace of natural movement helped...
- One of four children, Isadora Duncan was raised by her music teacher mother. Duncan had a child by theatre director-designer Gordon Craig and anoth...
- Isadora Duncan rejected the rigidity of ballet and based her dancing on natural movements. Unsuccessful in America, she went abroad, where the patr...
- During the last years of her life, Isadora Duncan lived precariously in Nice on the French Riviera, where she met with a fatal accident: her long s...
A wonderfully frenetic biographical survey of Duncan by a director entering his peak period of television dramas, labelled as documentaries, but essentially feature films wanting to burst out of the BBC’s gates.
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- BBC
- Ken Russell
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), often called the “mother of modern dance” was born in San Francisco and went on to liberate dance from the confines of the ballet of her time, shedding slippers and corset to combine the use of simple, natural movement with a vibrant musicality.
The eccentric life and bizarre death of the dancer Isadora Duncan.
