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The Isadorables, students of Isadora Duncan. Arnold Genthe, 1917

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Isadora Duncan en el ocaso de sus días.

A Isadora no le gustaban los aspectos comerciales de la actuación pública, como las giras y los contratos, porque sentía que la distraían de su verdadera misión, la creación de belleza y la educación de los jóvenes. En 1904, Isadora abrió una escuela de danza en Berlín, donde enseñaba a un grupo de niñas huérfanas y pobres. Esta institución fue el lugar de nacimiento de los “Isadorables”; Anna,…

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Anna (Denzler) Duncan , miembro de las Isadorables 

“Una vez fuiste salvaje, No dejes que te domestiquen” Isadora Duncan

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Anna Duncan (1894-1982).  Autographed Christmas Card, 1943.

One of the six Isadorables who performed with Isadora Duncan, Anna was generally considered to be the best dancer of the group  (next to Isadora herself, of course).   At the time this card was sent, Anna – like other American dancers, including Ruth St. Dennis and Maud Allan – was working for the government, and contributed to the war effort as a translator and civilian censor.

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Isadora Duncan dancing La Marseillaise, 1917 Arnold Genthe (American, born Germany; 1869–1942) Photographic print mounted on paper The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division

Inscribed on mount by Isadora Duncan to her foster daughter, Irma Duncan: “Liberté Liberté Cherie – Isadora"

Irma Duncan “was one of six German children who gained fame by touring as the ‘Isadorables,’ or the Duncan Dancers, shortly before and after World War I.” (New York Times, September 22, 1977)

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Isadora Duncan (1877-1927).  A promotional (or souvenir) postcard (ca. 1909-1910).

In 1909 Isadora moved to Paris from Germany, followed by her students from her old school in Grunewald, Germany.   Together, they appeared in a series of recitals at the Théâtré Lyrique de la Gaité.  “The result was that we took Paris by storm”, she would later write in her autobiography.

It was at this time that her students – Anna, Irma, Lisa, Theresa, Margot, and Erika - acquired the name of the Isadorables, given them by writer  Fernand Divoire.

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Duncan Dancers Program.  San Francisco, December, 1919

 A program from a joint recital by the Duncan Dancers and pianist George Copeland – who accompanied them in their dances, and who also played a series of solo pieces. The program covered two separate performances, December 28, and December 30, at Columbia Theater, in San Francisco.   Copeland toured with them from 1918 through 1920.  He was an American pianist, and an early proponent of the music of Claude Debussy, with whom he had studied while in France.

 The Duncan Dancers were also known as the “Isadorables” – all of whom were long-time students of Isadora, and who legally adopted them at the outbreak of World War I.  As most were of German extraction (Anna was Swiss), they would have been considered enemy aliens at that time.

 You can find many of Copeland’s recordings on YouTube.