Her first New York appearance was in Daly’s Theater in 1895, as a fairy in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” After studying in Europe she appeared in London with a Shakespearean company in 1900, so inspiring Ellen Terry, herself a famous dancer, that she jumped to her feet as the dance ended and delivered an enthusiastic tribute to the younger dancer’s art. Later she became a dancing teacher in her mother’s school. In childhood play she devised dances and taught them to playmates. Isadora Duncan, who was killed today in Nice, is claimed by San Francisco as one of its native daughters. Isadora Duncan Born at San Francisco in 1880 However, yesterday, Miss Duncan said that the report of the engagement was the result of a joke passed between her and Chanler at a dinner party.
Only a few days ago a dispatch from Nice declared that Miss Duncan was engaged to Robert Chanler of New York. On another occasion she said he “was really too impossible.” Vessinin later committed suicide. This affair appeared to be the beginning of a separation and later in Paris she announced that she had sent her husband to Russia, saying that he had disturbed her in a Paris hotel. These attacks caused her to announce publicly that she would again depart from the United States and remain in Europe, adding that it was likely that she would return to Russia.Īt a party in New York on the eve of her sailing in 1923, a quarrel arose between her and Vessinin, which resulted in Miss Duncan receiving two black eyes. Her offerings were received with admiration in some circles, but from other quarters she was denounced.
ISADORA DUNCAN BUGATTI SERIES
In 1922, accompanied by her youthful husband, Miss Duncan once more returned to the United States and gave a series of dances, in one of which she appeared on the stage wrapped in a red silk flag. Russia, which before her return to that country under soviet auspices, was described by her as the one place in the world where the artistic qualities inherent in a person could be expressed in their highest form, soon palled on her, and after having returned to Paris she said that even the Russian Bolshevist chieftains were “too bourgeois” for her. Difficulties arose, however, and she soon gave up the idea, but not before acquiring a 27-year-old Russia poet, Serge Vessinin, as a husband. In 1921 she went to Russia at what is said to have been the invitation of the soviet government to open and conduct a dancing school in Moscow. She had traveled to virtually all parts of the world and her life was filled with experiences which took her to the highest pinnacle of artistic success and to the extremity of poverty in which she was forced to rely on the generosity of her friends to pay her debts.
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