Isadora Duncan at the portal of the Parthenon, Athens, in a 1921 photograph by Edward Steichen.
George Balanchine witnessed one Duncan performance—and for him that was enough. Balanchine’s verdict on Duncan: “a drunk fat woman who for hours was rolling around like a pig”.
She was also an irrepressible, ravenously cyclostomatous communist slut.
ReplyDeleteIsadora and I were never close.
ReplyDeleteIt may have had something to do with the fact that she died decades before I was born.