Isadora Duncan Isadora Duncan Angela Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 or May 27, 1878 – September 14, 1927) was an American and French dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe. Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50, when her scarf became entangled in the wheels and axle of the car in which she was riding. Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco, the youngest of the four children of Joseph Charles Duncan (1819–1898), a banker, mining engineer and connoisseur of the arts, and Mary Isadora Gray
Nina Anisimova (dancer) to the writer Konstantin Derzhavin. Nina Anisimova (dancer) Nina Aleksandrovna Anisimova (Russian: Нина Александровна Анисимова; born St Petersburg, 27 January 1909, died Leningrad, 23 September 1979) was a Russian dancer and choreographer. She studied at the Petrograd (later Leningrad) Ballet School with Maria Fedorovna Romanova, Alexander Shiryaev, and Agrippina Vaganova. In 1926 she graduated into the Maly Theatre of Opera and Ballet, then from 1927 to 1958 danced with GATOB (later Kirov Ballet). In 1932 she created the role of Thérèse in Vasily Vainonen's "Flames of Paris", demonstrating her abilities as a character dancer. In 1936 she choreographed her first