Historical Transition of Duncan Dance This Page Last Modified on Jan. 9, 2007 First-Generation Isadora Duncan (Angela Isadora Duncan) b. San Francisco, USA on May 26, 1877 / d. Nice, France on Sept. 14, 1927 Elizabeth Duncan (Mary Elizabeth Bioren) b. San Francisco, USA on Nov. 8, 1871 / d. Tubingen, Germany in 1948. Second-Generation Pupils of Forest School in Grunewald, Germany, called " Duncaninchen (Little Duncans) " Isadorables / Isadora Duncan Dancers Original pupils joined Forest School in 1905. They were adopted by Isadora in 1917. The group name was christened by the poet and critic Fernand Divoire. Anna Duncan (Anna Denzler) b. Zurich, Switzerland on Dec. 21, 1894 / d. Yonkers, NY, USA on Mar. 7, 1980 Erica Duncan (Erica Lohman) b. Hamburg, Germany in Mar. 1901 / d. in 1984 Erica left the Isadorables to practice painting in around 1921. Irma Duncan (Irma Dorette Ehrich-Grimme) b. Schleswig-Holstein Germany on Feb. 26, 1897 d. Santa Barbara, CA, USA on Sept. 20, 1977 Isadora allowed Irma to teach children dance when she was 15 years old. Only Irma went to Russia to support Isadora and teach there. After Isadora's death, she came to USA to teach and perform Isadora's legacy. She gave her last public performance on Jan 25, 1934 at Madison Square Garden, NY. Irma published " Isadora Duncan's Russian Days and Her Last Years in France (1929), " " The Technique of Isadora Duncan (1937), " " Isadora Duncan, Pioneer in the Art of Dance (1958), " and her autobiography " Duncan Dancer/Follow me (1965.) " Lisa Duncan (Elizabeth (Lisa) Milker) b. Dresden, Germany on Dec. 27, 1898 / d. Dresden, Germany on Jan. 24, 1976 Margot Duncan (Margot (Gretel) Jehle) b. Berlin in June, 1900 / d. Paris? in 1925 In 1921, Margot stopped dancing due to her medical problem. She died while Isadora was in Paris. Maria-Theresa Duncan (Maria-Theresa Kruger) b. Dresden, Germany on April 16, 1895 / d. NY, USA on Dec. 14, 1987 Maria-Theresa Kruger was born of a German father and a Polish mother. Maria-Theresa did not go to Russia with Isadora and Irma in 1921 because she was about to marry Stephen Bourgeuois and wanted to dance and teach in USA. The First Lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1845), invited Maria-Theresa to have a dance concert at the White House on May 2, 1933. Maria-Theresa established Isadora Duncan Dance International Institute with her pupil Kay Bardsley in 1977. Maria-Theresa kept dancing and teaching not only Isadora's original dances, but also her own dances in NYC until she was 90. She always said, " Don't do Isadora Duncan dances. She did not want people to; she said those were the creations of her own soul (Fina, 2003, p12). " Other Pupils Isabelle Branche, Temple Duncan, Gerda, Stephanie Dumbrovska, Jacoba Van der Pas, Frya, Suzanna, Elsa, Mathilde, Marie, Emma, Marta, etc. Pupils of Dionysion in Bellevue, France Valia Petrishcheva, who went to Russia to teach from 1922 to 1923. Pupils in NY Pupils in Geneva, Switzerland. Pupils of Isadora Duncan State School (Isadora Duncan Moscow School) in Russia, opened on Dec. 3, 1921 and closed in 1949. Pupils who went on the US and Canadian tour with Irma Duncan from December 10, 1928 to Jan. 24, 1930: Alexandra (Shura) Aksenova (1911-1958), Elena (lyola) Terentieva (1913), Elizaveta (Liza) Belova (1910), Lily Dikovskaya (1913), Maria (Mussia) Mysovskaya (1913), Maria Toropchenova (1911-1943), Tamara Lobanovskaya, Tamara Semenova (1913), Valentina Boye (1912), Vera Golovina (1912) Maria (Marussia) Borisove (1910) came back to Russia in 1929 Other pupils: Doda Ozhegova (1910-1948), Elena Fedorovskaya (1913), Evgenia Ovsiannikova, Kyra Khachaturova, Lidochka Lozovaya, Linda Lozovaya, Lucy Flaxman, Marianna Yaroslavskaya, Moura Babad, Natasha Nekrasova, Yulia Vashentseva (1911), etc. The school was established in Prechistenka 20, Moscow where Isadora and Irma lived, on Dec. 3, 1921. While Isadora left Russia and after she died, Irma kept teaching pupils. After Irma left for USA, Ilya Ilyich Schneider (1891-1980) organized the school; Tamara Lobanovskaya was the artistic director from 1930 to 1939, and Elena Terentieva was the artistic director until the school closed in 1949. The school gave the last concert at Tchaikovsky Hall on April 7, 1949. Pupils of Elizabeth Duncan Schule (School) in Darmstadt, Germany, opend on Dec. 17, 1911 Anita Zahn b. Baden-Baden, Germany in 1903 / d. Grants Pass, Oregon, on Nov. 3, 1994 Zahn was one of the nine Elizabeth Duncan School pupils who were brought to USA at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. She left USA for Switzerland in 1920 and returned to USA in 1922. She started teaching Duncan Dance in 1924 and became the director of the Elizabeth Duncan School in NY in the late 1920s; she later established Anita Zahn School of Ducnan Dancing. She taught many Duncan Dancers including Hortense Kooluris, Jeanne Bresciani and Sylvia Gold, etc. in NY and arranged Duncan Dance performances until mid 1960s. She moved to Oregon from NY in 1986 and died in Grants Pass in 1994. Erna Lane b. Munich, Germany / d. West Stockbridge, Mass. on Jun. 28, 1996 Riva Hoffman References Bardsley, Kay. " Isadora Duncan's First School: The First Generation Founders of the Tradition " Dance Research Collage A Variety of Subjects Embracing The Abstract and the Practical, Congress on Research in Dance Inc. 1979. Blair, Fredrika. Isadora Portrait of the Artist as a Woman, McGraw-Hill Book Company, NY, 1986. Deutsches Tanzarchiv Koln. Isadora and Elizabeth Duncan in Germany, Wienand, Koln, 2000. Duncan, Irma. And Macdougall, Allan Ross. Isadora Duncan's Russian Days and Her Last Years in France, CoviciFriede, NY, 1929. Duncan, Isadora. My Life, Boni and Liveright, NY, 1927. Fina, Pamela De. Maria Theresa Divine Being Guided by a Higher Order The Adopted Daughter of Isadora Duncan, Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc., PA, 2003. Gold, Sylvia. " Isadora Duncan Heritage, " A Selection of Isadora Duncan Dances, The Sutton Movement Writing Press / The Center for Sutton Movement Writing, Inc., CA, 1984. P10. Isadora Duncan International Institute. http: // www.isadoraduncan.net, NY Nahumck, Nadia Chilokovsky and Nicholas. " A Brief Who's Who of Duncan Dance in America " and " Transmission of the Duncan Repertory in America, " Isadora Duncan The Dances, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D. C. 1994. Pp. 520-523. New York Public Library Digital Library Collections. Biographical History Zahn (Anita) professional and personal papers, c. 1920-1991. NY New York Times. " Anita Zahn, 91 Teacher of Dance. " NY. December 19, 1994. Roslavleva, Natalia. Prechistenka 20: The Isadora Duncan School in Moscow (Dance Perspectives 64), Marcel Dekker, Inc., NY, 1975http://www11.plala.or.jp/i-duncanslinks/transition.html
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