BOOKS

My Life

By Isadora Duncan

  • Isadora’s classic autobiography. Copyright 1927 by Boni & Liveright, Inc.

  • $20 + $5 shipping & handling

The Art of the Dance

By Isadora Duncan, edited with introduction by Sheldon Cheney. Forewords by Raymond Duncan, Eva LeGallienne, Max Eastman, others.

  • The Bible of Isadora Duncan dance technique and philosophy! – Lori Belilove

    Bound photocopy (original out-of-print) Copyright 1969 by Theater Arts Books/ New York.

  • $30 + $8 shipping & handling

Isadora Duncan: A Graphic Biography

By Sabrina Jones, with foreword by Lori Belilove

  • Myth and controversy still swirl around the dramatic figure of Isadora Duncan. The pioneering modern dancer emerged from provincial nineteenth-century America to captivate the cultural capitals of Europe, reinvent dance as a fine art, and leave a trail of scandals in her wake. From her unconventional California girlhood to her tragic death on the French Riviera fifty years later, Duncan’s journey was an uncompromising quest for truth, beauty, and freedom. Here Duncan’s art and ideas come vividly to life. Each page is a unique dance of words and images, reflecting Duncan’s courage, passion, and idealism in a way sure to inspire another generation of admirers. Signed copies available. Copyright 2008, Hill & Wang.

  • Hardcover $20 + $6 shipping & handling

Isadora: A Sensational Life

By Peter Kurth

  • A fully researched account of the remarkable life of Isadora Duncan.

    Isadora: A Sensational Life, has earned high praise from the New York Times. The Library Journal calls it “a luminous portrait, aglow with the details of Isadora’s life and times.” Drawing from extensive research of major archival sources in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Moscow, and St. Petersburg, including several private collections and unpublished manuscripts, Mr. Kurth has created a compelling portrait of an intelligent, complicated, conflicted woman. Signed copies available. Copyright 2001 Little Brown and Company/New York.

  • Paperback: $30 + $9 shipping & handling

    Hardcover (used copies only): $40 + $9 shipping & handling

Isadora Speaks: Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan

Edited and introduced by Franklin Rosemont

  • This outstanding collection of the great dancer’s heretofore uncollected writings and speeches gives us a vivid new perception of her importance as an original and radical thinker. Features her outspoken views on America, Revolutionary Russia, education and the arts, life with Serge Esenin, love, women’s emancipation, and dance as a radical force capable of transforming the world and changing life. Copyright 2001 by Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, Chicago, IL.

  • Paperback: $20 + $6 shipping & handling

The Search for Isadora: The Legend & Legacy of Isadora Duncan

By Lillian Lowenthal

  • Re-appraises Isadora’s significance as one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century in dance, education, art, fashion, and women’s liberation. Features chapters on all six of the Isadorables. A Dance Horizons Book.

    Copyright 1993 by Princeton Book Co., Pennington, NJ

  • Hardcover: $40 + $8 shipping & handling

Done Into Dance: Isadora Duncan in America

By Ann Daly

  • Reveals Duncan enmeshed in the social and cultural context of her time. Ideas about nature, beauty, and expression, her association with feminism and her racial notion of “Americanness.”

    Copyright 1995 by Indiana University Press, Indianapolis.

  • $30 + $8 shipping & handling

Images

By Julia Levien

  • Drawings of Duncan dances and text. Rediscover the dances of Isadora Duncan in these images drawn from the personal experience of this second-generation Duncan dancer. Self-Published.

  • $65 + $8 shipping & handling

Sous le Signe D’Isadora

By Musée Bourdelle

  • Text in French. Features renderings of Isadora Duncan by Antoine Bourdelle and some of his pupils including Auguste Rodin. High-quality bound copy (original out-of-print). Copyright Musée Bourdelle, 1966.

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Modern Gestures: Abraham Walkowitz Draws Isadora Duncan Dancing

By Ann Cooper Albright

  • Watercolors by a modernist master capture the beginnings of modern dance.

    This small and beautifully illustrated book showcases the work of two great American modernists, painter Abraham Walkowitz and dancer Isadora Duncan. Born in the same year (1878), both artists influenced the development of modern art in the early twentieth century by blending figurative gesture with abstraction. Duncan grew up in a free-spirited and artistic household in California and then moved to Europe. Walkowitz immigrated to the United States from Russia when he was a child and lived most of his life in New York City, where he studied at Cooper Union School and the National Academy of Design.

  • Hardcover: $25 + $6 shipping & handling

Anna Duncan: I Isadoras fotspar (Anna Duncan: In the footsteps of Isadora)

Chapters written by Anna Duncan, Kathleen Quinlan, Edwin Ver Becke, Julia Levien, Anna Kisselgoff and others.

  • In English and Swedish. Copyright 2010 Dansmuseet, (The Dance Museum and the authors), Stockholm.

  • $45 + $8 shipping & handling

In Isadora’s Steps

By Lily Dikovskaya, with Gerard M-F Hill

  • The story of Isadora Duncan’s school in Moscow, told by her favorite pupil. Hardcover, 336 pages.

    Copyright 2008 Lily DikovskayaBook Guild Publishing, Great Britain.

  • $45 + $12 shipping and handling

Isadora: Portrait of the Artist as a Woman

By Fredrika Blair

  • Definitely scholarly but not at all academic or stodgy, this book recounts a whirlwind life that began in San Fransisco and sped to Chicago, New York, and then triumphantly throughout capitals of Europe. This is a thoughtful yet colorful popular biography that affords both intellectual and gossip-mongering pleasure. Used copies available.

  • $20 + $6 shipping and handling

Headlong Through Life: The Story of Isadora Duncan

By Ean Wood

  • Ean Wood tells the whole life-story of Isadora Duncan with fascinating detail and revealing anecdotes.

  • $42 + $6 shipping and handling

Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Genre, Gender, Solo Performance

By Carrie J. Preston

  • Carrie Preston visited The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation, browsed our historical archives, took classes, and interviewed the Company directors for her thesis in 2005 titled: The Motor in the Soul: Isadora Duncan’s Solo Performance, one of the centerpieces of this wonderful study in modernism.

  • $42 + $6 shipping and handling

Duncan Dance: A Guide for Young People Ages 6-16

By Julia Levien

  • Easy-to-follow guide to Duncan technique with instructions for five original Duncan dances.

    A Dance Horizons Book. Princeton Book Co., Pennington, NJ.

  • $25 + $8 shipping & handling

Isadora and the Ancient Greeks, Lesson Plan #1: The Bouncy Run – Atalanta and the Golden Apples

By Lori Belilove and Cherlyn Smith

  • The first instructional booklet providing a step by step lesson plan on the technique of the Mother of Modern Dance, as designed by the foremost interpreter of Isadora Duncan, Lori Belilove. For the first time, a guide to Isadora’s movement style, with easy descriptions, beautiful photos and illustrations, stories and information, capturing the essence of Isadora.

  • $20 + $5 shipping & handling & handling

The Technique of Isadora Duncan

By Irma Duncan

  • Lessons, photographs and instructional illustrations on the technique of Isadora Duncan, as taught by Irma Duncan. This is a high-quality bound copy of an unabridged republication of the first edition published in 1937 by Kamin Publishers, New York. The original is now out-of-print. 35 pages. Copyright 1970 by Irma Duncan Rogers.

  • $20 + $5 shipping & handling

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RARE & OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS

Isadora Duncan

Edited by Paul Magriel

  • Essays and commentaries on Isadora Duncan by John Martin, Carl Van Vechten, Allan Ross Macdougall, and Gordon Craig. This high-quality bound copy (original out-of-print) includes a chronology, bibliography, and reproductions from albums and books of Isadora Duncan. 85 pages. Copyright 1947 by Dance Index.

  • $25 + $6 shipping & handling

Isadora Duncan: Pioneer in the Art of Dance

By Irma Duncan

  • With a stunning cover featuring a lithograph of Isadora Duncan by Gordon Craig, this charming and informative essay by ‘Isadorable’ Irma Duncan covers Isadora’s pioneering years and Irma’s own career as one of the original young artists trained by her. High-quality bound copy (original out-of-print). 19 pages. Copyright 1959 New York Public Library

  • $15 + $5 shipping & handling

Dance Perspectives 5: The Legacy of Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis

By Walter Terry

  • This winter 1960 issue of Dance Perspectives details the legacy of Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis and contains over forty reproductions of wonderful photographs and drawings. High-quality bound copy (original out-of-print). 60 pages. Copyright 1959 by Dance Perspectives, Inc.

  • $20 + $5 shipping & handling

Dance Perspectives 21: Follow Me! The Autobiography of Irma Duncan Part I

By Irma Duncan

  • High-quality bound copy (original out-of-print). 71 pages. Copyright 1965 by Dance Perspectives, Inc. Introduction by Doris Hering. This is the story of Irma Duncan, the Isadorable who stayed with Isadora the longest.

  • $20 + $5 shipping & handling

Dance Perspectives 22: Follow Me! The Autobiography of Irma Duncan Part II

By Irma Duncan

  • High-quality bound copy (original out-of-print). 79 pages. Copyright 1965 by Dance Perspectives, Inc.

  • $20 + $5 shipping & handling

Dance Perspectives 64: Prechistenka 20: The Isadora Duncan School in Moscow

By Natalia Roslavleva

  • The story of Isadora’s Russian school as told from the perspective of a dancer who went on to join Irma Duncan’s Isadora Duncan Dancers of Moscow troupe. High-quality bound copy (original out-of-print). 48 pages. Copyright 1975 by Dance Perspectives, Inc.

  • $20 + $5 shipping & handling

Remembering Isadora Duncan—Emlekkonyv

By Mozdlatmusveszeti

  • Text in Hungarian and English commemorating Isadora’s public debut performance and detailing experiences in Hungary, Sweden, and Russia. Interesting and rarely seen pictures.

    Copyright 2002 Dr. Dienes Gedeon, Dienes Maya, Dorota Gremlicova, Giv Lakhuti, Orkesztika Alapitvany, Budapest.

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CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Isadora Duncan: La Danza Del Espíritu

Text by Rayo Ramírez, Illustrations by Felipe Ugalde

  • This biographical tale teaches young readers about Isadora Duncan’s life, and role as the “mother of modern dance.” With glowing illustrations La Danza Del Espíritu offers insight into the enigmatic personality of Isadora, an American woman who changed the art of dance forever. Includes a chronology and a selection of rarely seen historical photographs. In Spanish. Paperback, 46 pages.

    Copyright 2009 Ediciones SM

  • $18 + $3 shipping & handling

Isadora Dances

By Rachel Isadora

  • A beautifully written and illustrated biography of Isadora Duncan by acclaimed children’s author Rachel Isadora. For children ages 3-8. This beloved book is now out of print in all editions. Copyright 1998 Rachel Isadora.Paperback, 32 pages.

    Copyright 2000 Puffin Books (reprint edition)

  • Paperback: $20 + $6 shipping & handling
    Hardcover: $30 + $6 shipping & handling

Isadora Duncan: American Dancer

Susan Keating, with illustrations by Isabelle Forestier

  • A delightfully illustrated biography of Isadora Duncan, for children ages 8 and up. Hardcover, 32 pages.

    Copyright 2007 Mason Crest Publishers, Philadelphia

  • $25 + $8 shipping and handling

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