Barefoot and wearing tulle, she danced lightly in the artistic conception of Chopin and other classical musicians, just like a fairy arrival.

She is whimsical and cynical, changing lovers like changing clothes, all by whim and psychological feelings anytime and anywhere.

She is brave, strong and independent. After experiencing the pain of her own child leaving her, she was still standing on the dance floor, and no one could beat her.

She is isadora duncan who dares to abandon classical ballet, despises marriage and bears hardships and stands hard work.

Duncan 1877 was born in San Francisco, USA on May 26th. When she was born, her parents had divorced and she lived with her mother. Because of poverty, her family often moves.

Her childhood experience was unfortunate, but she was lucky. It's a pity that she didn't feel her father's love since she was a child and grew up in a single-parent family. Fortunately, her mother gave her great maternal love, which made her receive a good music education and cultivated her interest in dance.

Indeed, in Duncan's view, a person's education at school has no practical effect. The real education is that my mother plays Beethoven at night and recites poems by Shakespeare and Shelley. She learned music knowledge from her mother and opened the door to her dance.

Beautiful Duncan is a girl with a dream. Duncan lived for dancing and lived for dancing. She likes singing, acting, especially dancing since she was a child, and shows her extraordinary talent for dancing. When she first learned to walk, she could dance with her mother's piano accompaniment. By the age of 6, she had been able to teach her friends to dance, and she showed her disgust at the rigid classical ballet. She is determined to base her dance on natural rhythm and movements, explain and perform musicians' works, and get rid of self-expression bound by rules and customs.

Poor life, the shackles of rules and regulations are tormenting Duncan all the time. She began to eagerly pursue all the places full of creative talents. For her, no matter where this "distant place" is, just stay away from here. Finally, with enthusiasm, Duncan and his mother embarked on the road of struggle.

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Mother and daughter came to Chicago. Duncan suffered the first blow in her life, and her dance was not recognized by the public. Therefore, the mother and daughter are facing hunger, not the threat of hunger, but real hunger. Finally, Duncan got a job in a theater. In order to survive, she began to dance in an atmosphere of smoke, alcohol and turbidity.

Faced with the threat of survival, even people with dreams will become very small. At this time, "faraway place" waved to her again. This time, the Duncan family will go to London. Duncan 2 1 year.

Here, at first, her income was very small, far from enough to feed the hungry stomachs of these young people. But her spiritual food is very substantial, and she devoted herself to studying ancient Greek art in the British Museum. She found her ideal dance expression from ancient sculptures and paintings: dressed in robes and barefoot, like swaying trees or billowing waves.

Duncan mentioned many times in her biography that her initial dance inspiration and impulse came from the rushing sea, trembling flowers, flying bees and pigeons flying with wings; In her eyes, everything in nature is dancing, much more free than human beings. She believes that the task of dance is to find the most beautiful forms in nature and find the movements that can express the inner spirit of these forms. Her aesthetic thought can be summed up in one sentence: beauty is nature.

At that time, most of the dances on the stage were ballet-like, with one beat and one jump, the dancers girded their waists and opened their skirts, only stood on tiptoe and rolled around. In Duncan's eyes, this kind of dance has lost the beauty of human natural movements and is only a skill of women. She believes that skills will defile the natural beauty of the human body, actions come from self-feeling, and dance should show life from beginning to end. She defined dance as "a complete concept of life and the art of expressing human thoughts through actions." Slowly, she began to disdain to dance low-level commercial dances for her life.

When she was poor in Paris, Duncan refused her because she was not allowed to go barefoot and barefoot, even though she was invited to perform in a grand theater in Berlin. At this time, she was exhausted physically and mentally, with endless pain in her chest and sad marks on her hands. When you are alone, let the tears flow out.

Finally, Duncan waited for a turning point in his life. As a dancer, Duncan finally broke into a butterfly. She was invited to perform in Berlin. A dancer who danced barefoot in a cicada-like thin dress performed those unrestrained wonderful dances on the stage, and the Germans who love art showed almost crazy enthusiasm for art. Obviously, her dance is revolutionary, which is completely different from ballet, which has always dominated the western dance world. Full of fresh ideas, it created the form of free dance and explored a new way for modern new dance.

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She suffered a lot, persevered and finally gained recognition and success. Life is really colorful. But what she has no regrets will always be her dream. After each performance, she was deeply impressed by the image of dancing barefoot in a tulle top. She aroused people's fanatical worship, especially some young students regarded her as a goddess and fell in love with her charm.

Duncan's dance has become a fashion, and people in Britain and France have followed suit. Indeed, Duncan, who was barefoot, had a strong impact on American dance in the 20th century. The description of dance historians is this: Duncan is dancing all over, his heart is in it, and he is unconventional, so he is unconventional and transcends the "object of sensuality".

For that era, she was an unconventional woman, but everything she did was out of nature, not for grandstanding. Since then, running a dance school has become her lifelong pursuit.

1904, she spared no expense in selling jewelry and devoting all her savings to establish the first dance school in Berlin to teach young girls the beauty of dance. This was her ambition since childhood, so no matter how much resistance she encountered, she would not give up and finally realized her ideal.

As a dancer, she succeeded. She became the founder of American modern dance, and spread her dance thoughts and movements with her own dance school, which influenced the development of world dance.

At this time, Duncan gradually realized that life without perfect love is incomplete, so her private life is full of psychedelic colors. She began to show mercy among European nobles, wealthy businessmen and celebrities in the art world, and even the kings of Greece and Bulgaria fell in love with her. But she changed her lover like a dress, but she never changed herself. /kloc-when she was 0/2 years old, she solemnly vowed not to refuse love, but never to get married.

1905, she met ellen terry's son Gordon Craig in Berlin. This is great love; This is an extreme life. She is willing to be an unmarried mother. She doesn't care that children are embarrassed by illegitimate children's birthright. She just respects her heart and looks for the future direction. Soon, the crystallization of their love was born, and they named her deirdre. Duncan regarded her as the apple of his eye.

Her dance steps don't stop there. She came to America. Similarly, Americans are shocked and ecstatic. Theodore roosevelt also praised Duncan: "In my opinion, it's like a naive child dancing in a garden bathed in morning light to pick the beautiful flowers he imagined."

19 14, she founded a dance school in the suburbs of Paris. When she danced to the lingering melody of Chopin's funeral March, a tragic scene came into her eyes. She closed her eyes and danced, but clearly saw that her two children were facing an unfortunate threat. A few days later, she received the news that two children had died.

A mother cries only twice in her life, and only twice-when her child is born and dies. She felt that everyone around her was crying, but she didn't cry, but she heard her inner cry. As a mother, she felt that she could never dance again. But she can't control her feet. In her own tragedy, she became a giant, and life did not and could not stop. She is still dancing and continues to teach the little girls around her to dance.

192 1 At the invitation of Luna Charlesky, Chairman of the Education Committee of the former Soviet Union, Duncan came to the former Soviet Union not far from Wan Li to run a school, passing through many countries.

The passage of time can often alleviate childhood paranoia, but Duncan has never changed his contempt for the marriage system he witnessed.

Until 1922, Duncan fell in love with Ye Saining at first sight, finally met his "long-awaited only" Mr Right, and regarded his love for Ye Saining as the "last resurrection" of her life.

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Dancing genius and poetic genius always meet differently. Duncan didn't advocate marriage all her life, but in order to be with Ye Saining, she changed her attitude and started a marriage life that she always refused. And considering Ye Saining's feelings, Duncan, then 43, said that he was only 35 when he registered for marriage, which narrowed the age gap with Ye Saining.

After getting married, she found that Ye Saining "only appreciated her skin" and didn't understand her art. Indeed, there is a great distance between them: Ye Saining is a "sad" poet and Duncan is a "happy" dancer. Although they have the same artistic language, they lack harmony in character. Soon, they decided to break up. Ye Saining committed suicide at the end of 1925, and Duncan died unexpectedly in the second half of 1927. Their acquaintance may be the last heavy stroke for a short and gorgeous life.

Two people who once loved each other became passers-by in each other's fate, and each became a source of happiness and pain for each other.

Shortly before Duncan's death, a western reporter asked her, "Which period in your life do you think is the greatest and happiest?" She replied without thinking: "Russia, only Russia. During my three years in Russia, I was associated with all the sufferings there. In this short period of three years, it is enough to cover the rest of my life. I will go there again soon, and I want to spend the rest of my life there ... "

1926, Duncan auctioned her house in Nair, which was completely heartbreaking. Duncan's two angelic children went out from there and were taken away by the Seine.

1927 On July 8th, Duncan gave her last public performance in Mogado Theatre. The programs were carefully selected by herself, including Schubert's Ode to the Virgin and Wagner's Death in Cheshire.

Duncan's fate is unfortunate after all: 1927, one end of the scarf around his neck was caught by a speeding convertible wheel and he died miserably. The one who loved her cried, the one who understood her beautiful dream cried, and ...

Life is worse than death; Dreams are dead; The world is empty. On that sad day, it was found that the broad red ribbon pinned to Duncan shone with a golden inscription: "Russian heart cries for isadora."