Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World choreographed interpretations. Still, some might find the constant confrontations and shouting matches tiring. After all, Russell makes it clear that this was one artist who could have had it all had she just kept her mighty yap shut. Because she didn't, however, we see her downfall in all its brazen glory." Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World is a BBC TV film based on the life of the American dancer Isadora Duncan first broadcast on 22 September 1966. The film was directed and produced by Ken Russell and written by
Nina Anisimova (dancer) 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 major ballet, "Andalusian Wedding" (music