Last weekend marked the anniversary of the birth of modern dance pioneer and Oakland native Isadora Duncan. Duncan was born 135 years ago, on May 27, 1877, the youngest of four children, raised by a ...

This portrait of the complex and charismatic "Mother of Modern Dance" traces the life and artistic development of San Francisco-born Isadora Duncan (1877-1927).

“I have built my life around the feeling of being tipped forward on my toes,” says the mother of modern dance, Isadora Duncan, in the early pages of this biographical novel. At the moment of this ...

The mother of modern dance didn t much like the art form. Not the dance of the time, anyway, which was the late 1800s and early 1900s. As Isadora Duncan was giving birth to the concept of new movement ...

Love—”one great surging, longing, unmistakable urge”—came to Isadora Duncan in Budapest in springtime. She met an actor whom in her later memoirs she called “Romeo.”* Out of this awakening came a ...

Los Angeles is famous for its movie premieres. In recent years, the vitality of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Opera Company have also attracted their share of premieres.