Isadora Duncan
The Gypsy Dream Journal
Isadora Duncan is considered by many to be the creator of modern dance. She traveled across Europe performing to great acclaim, then spent much of her later life performing in New York City.
Duncan was a bit of an eccentric (once, during a Boston performance, she bared her breast onstage), which included her love of especially long, flowing scarves. She was wearing one such scarf in Nice, France on September 14, 1927, the day of her death, when the scarf became entangled with the open-spoked wheel of the car in which she was a passenger and broke her neck.
The New York Times stated in her obituary: “Isadora Duncan, the American dancer, tonight met a tragic death at Nice on the Riviera. According to dispatches from Nice, Miss Duncan was hurled in an extraordinary manner from an open automobile in which she was riding and instantly killed by the force of her fall to the stone pavement.”
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