ISADORA DUNCAN

North American dancer, born in San Francisco and deceased in Nize. To the 10 years she left the school to dedicate herself to the dance and to the 17 one went to New York, where got up herself to the company of Agustín Daly.

Two years later she left in company of her family towards England to study the movements of the classic dance in the Greek vases that keep in the British Museum. With a dance based on the Greek classic style she gave a series of recitals in London and later she made a tour by the rest of Europe. Her new style influenced in the development of the ballet of Diaghilev.

Forced to return to western Europe by lack of bottoms, a school of ballet near Berlin opened in 1904. The death of her two children, who perished drowned in 1913, interrupted her career. In 1926 it appeared her autobiography My Life and the following year she died tragically strangled when being entangled his „chal“ length with the wheels of her automobile.