As a brief introduction, I thought I’d share some more about what Isadora Duncan dance is. Isadora Duncan was a pioneer in modern dance in the early 1900´s. She thought of classical ballet as too uptight, with constricting clothing and motions not natural to the body and therefore created her own, beginning outside in nature as a child. She came to develop various sets of choreographies depicting a certain theme or era, such as the dances about love in lyrical style, dances about motherhood, dances based on Greek myths and the Olympics, and dances about Russian workers. All to classical music, preferably played by a live pianist. Her motions often contain an element of spirituality and a desire to express her soul, in harmony with nature.

This is a photo I saw in a magazine lately, showing a painting by Prospero Piatti, that the Greek Olympics also had a variation called the Heraean games, where women competed in honor of Goddess Hera (the wife of Dionysus); a must inspiration for Isadora!

She formed her own dance company called the Isadorables, performed in many European countries after she left the United States, where she was born. She died tragically in a car accident, where her scarf got caught and strangled her. The work of Isadora Duncan lives on through her dancers, that in turn became teachers to others, and further down the generations.