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
Gillian Wearing well rehearsed it looks. But that’s not the case, it might be that they have been reciting the trauma that they have experienced in their heads over many years. In "Homage to the woman with the bandaged face who I saw yesterday down Walworth Road" (1995), Wearing covers her head with white bandages and walks around in public. This piece materialized after Wearing caught a glimpse of a woman she saw with a bandaged head while in her friend’s car. Wearing initially wanted to ask for permission to film the woman, although she decided to cover her own face with