Isadora Duncan

Isadora_Duncan_portrait.jpg: Dover Street Studios, 38 Dover Street, Mayfair, London, UK. Active 1906–c.1912.[1] Distributed in the U.S. by Charles L. Ritzmann, photographer and importer of celebrity images.derivative work: Gobonobo / Public domainhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isadora_Duncan_portrait_cropped.jpg    My hero is Isadora Duncan. She was a trailblazing dancer and a precursor to modern dance techniques. Duncan was born on May 26, 1877, in San Francisco, California, and died on September 14, 1927. Duncan's dance style was controversial for its time because she disregarded the stock conventions of ballet, but she also got some people's favor, and got success in Europe.

   Isadora Duncan needed to make a living, so she moved to the UK when she was twenty-one. She studied the art of Ancient Greece and Greek mythology in the British Museum, which provided the inspiration for Duncan's dance style. Duncan usually wore a chiton and didn't wear shoes when she was dancing. Duncan thought too many skills would break natural beauty of people's bodies. All of the dance movements should be from what you thought and what you felt. She threw away her ballet slippers. With disheveled hair, she was the first person who was on the stage just like that, casual and relaxed. Although her dance made a big dispute at that time, she strived to spread her dance style. More people knew her and her dance; more people started to join and support her.

   Isadora Duncan was the dancer who broke the rules of ballet and created the new dance style called modern dance. So common people called her the mother of modern dance. I admire her courage. Her courage made her brave, and go to the unfamiliar place by herself. Her courage made her have different opinions of ballet to the world. And she let me know how well we can do with the powerful courage. That's why Isadora Duncan is my hero.