Beyond Isadora: Bay Area Dancing The Early Years, 1915 1965 documents the fascinating and little-known history of early 20th century dance in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a history of performers, choreographers and teachers, pioneers of today's dance community. It is also women's history, since the prime movers were almost all women. This history, offered here as short biographical and chronological sketches, seeks to detail the regional development of ballet and of modern, ethnic and folk dance, from the era of Isadora Duncan, San Francisco s dance legend, who is regarded as the pioneer revolutionary and the mother of modern dance, to the mid 1960s. After Isadora, decades of dancers, dance groups and organizations carried on and refined a new American dance. A symposium with Bay Area dance leaders and a performance of 'reconstructed works' was held in 2002 to provide groundwork information. Rare public and private archival collections supplied program data and illustrative...

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