Duncan's Autobiography

Author: Isadora Duncan
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Illustrated biography series of famous figures. Famous people are the axis of the world, famous biographies are the measure of life, and famous biographies are our tireless homeland. Duncan, a great American female dancer and pioneer of modern dance. Her free, airy, and romantic dance style swept across Europe and America like a breeze, breaking through the rigid conventions of classical dance and rekindling the audience's passion and love for dance. Her personal life, like her art, defied tradition and broke free from conventional constraints. In this autobiography, she writes with the same unrestrained and effortless style, vividly and authentically telling the life experiences and inner thoughts of a legendary woman who defied tradition. Duncan, a great dance innovator, was a pioneer who elevated interpretive dance to a creative art. Her unrestrained, flowing, and airy dance style undeniably swept across Europe and America at one time, captivating millions of audiences. She was a person of ancient Greek honor; a person of the great artistic honor of all eras; an equal to Phidias, Botticelli, and Michelangelo; the sister of the great Beethoven, Gluck, Chopin, and Wagner. This is a fascinating masterpiece. She has a pen that can paint flowers, possessing superhuman wisdom, and what is rare is that she can write frankly and faithfully about her various attitudes and commitments to life. Like Rousseau writing "Confessions," she reveals the true nature of her soul, her secret actions, and her inner thoughts without reservation.