My Life

Isadora Duncan. This name sounds like a challenge, like a hymn to freedom, like the embodiment of passionate love for dance — and love for life. She revered beauty, preached naturalness, and rejected conventions. In dance, she saw not gymnastics, but a prayer, a way of communicating with the cosmos. Her barefoot performances evoked admiration and scandal, while her personal life was as tumultuous and unpredictable as her dance improvisations…

In her autobiography, the world-famous dancer, theorist and practitioner of the "dance of the future," and a woman with a truly extraordinary fate for her time, Isadora Duncan captured the artistic world of America, Europe, and Russia as it was in the late 19th — early 20th century — a world conquered by the unprecedented courage and determination of this audacious muse of the new dance. But also in these lines — an honest account of the life path of a woman unfit to follow the beaten paths, who endured the tragic loss of her children, passionate love, and bitter separations, yet in spite of everything, did not lose her love for people and love for life.