Done into Dance Isadora Duncan in America

"The chapters of 'Done into Dance' focus on various 'bodies': the dancing body, the natural body, the expressive body, the female body, and the body politic. Sandwiching these are an introductory chapter sketching Duncan's life and an epilogue that recounts Duncan's (final) restaging of her own life. This organization happily eludes the chronological motor of biography but still addresses major changes over time in Duncan's choreography and dancing. And it illuminates a major source of Duncan's appeal....Isadora Duncan's dancing emerges...as a luminous register and potent site for working through issues of nationalism, social order, and sexuality."Daly, Ann is the author of 'Done into Dance Isadora Duncan in America' with ISBN 9780819565600 and ISBN 0819565601.