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Isadora Duncan

Also known as: Исидора Дункан

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An American dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe. Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 49 or 50 (Wikipedia).

San Francisco, Soviet Union
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Early on the morning of August 19, 1946, I was born under a clear sky after a violent summer storm to a widowed mother in the Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, a town of about six thousand in southwest Arkansas, thirty-three miles east of the Texas border at Texarkana.

— from My life, 1917

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Der tanz der zukunft

1903

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The Art of the Dance

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The Art of the Dance is a collection of written essays by the great revolutionary dancer and mother of modern dance, Isadora Duncan. They are her ideas, ponderings and analysis of the dance and what it should be as an art. These writings portray her philosophy of the dance and its impact on children, on the body as well as spiritual expression of the soul through movement. It is a witness to her great genius and a must read for any serious artist or scholar interested in the foundations of modern dance and its impact on all other art forms.

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My life

1917

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My Life by Golda Meir is a compelling autobiography, which tells the life of this influential woman, from her early poverty-stricken childhood in Kiev, to her tenure as Prime Minister of Israel, from 1969 to 1974. This is Golda Meir's long-awaited personal and moving story of her life. For the first time, we experience through her own words how it happened that this amazing woman, born in Russia and brought up in Milwaukee, became the prime minister of Israel and one of the political giants of our time without ever losing the warmth and informality for which she is justly celebrated. She herself describes her career as Israel's labor minister, foreign minister, and finally prime minister, against the background of her conflicting roles as a wife and as a mother. This personal story of her own life inevitably reflects also the story of Israel itself -- and of its struggle to survive -- culminating in what was for Golda Meir the most desperate period of all, the terrible days of the Yom Kippur War of 1973. - Jacket flap.

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