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Emile Antoine Bourdelle
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1861-1929

Isadora Duncan

DUNCAN, Isadora (1878-1927) 
Dancer, born in San Francisco, CA 

Isadora Duncan, arrived in France in 1900, at the age of 22. She records that she used to dance in the gardens of the Luxembourg Garden (6th) in the summer when it opened at 5 a.m. She took a large studio with her brother Raymond Rue de Villiers (17th). There she gave concerts, dancing barefoot in her Greek tunic. In 1909, she took two large apartments at 5 Rue Danton (6th). She lived on the ground floor and used the first floor for her dance school. On January 27 1909, acompanied by her students, she danced Iphigénie by Gluck at the Théâtre de la Gaieté (14th). The ballet was an outstanding success. When the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées was built, in 1913, her face was carved in the bas-relief by Antoine Bourdelle and painted in the murals by Maurice Denis. 

In 1919, she bought a house Rue de la Pompe (16th) and rebuilt her school of dance. In 1926, she moved to Rue Delambre (14th). She danced for the last time in Paris at the Théâtre Mogador (9th) in 1927. She was 49. She returned to Nice where she was killed when her scarf got caught in the wheel of her open car. She is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery (20th) with her two children.

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