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Isadora Duncan

1877 - 1927

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Angela Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877, or May 27, 1878 – September 14, 1927) was an American-born dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United States. Born and raised in California, she lived and danced in Western Europe, the U.S., and Soviet Russia from the age of 22. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isadora Duncan has received more than 3,801,744 page views. Her biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Isadora Duncan is the 2nd most popular dancer, the 116th most popular biography from United States (up from 125th in 2019) and the most popular American Dancer.

Isadora Duncan is most famous for being the mother of modern dance. She was born in San Francisco, California, and moved to Paris with her family when she was six years old. Duncan was a pioneer of modern dance, and she was the first dancer to perform without the use of ballet shoes.

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  • 84

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  • 9.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Isadora Duncan ranks 2 out of 116. Before her are Mata Hari. After her are Rudolf Nureyev, Anna Pavlova, Josephine Baker, Vaslav Nijinsky, Pina Bausch, Bobby Farrell, Marius Petipa, Marie Taglioni, Maurice Béjart, and Margot Fonteyn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Isadora Duncan ranks 2. Before her is Hermann Hesse. After her are Felix Dzerzhinsky, Wilhelm Frick, Charles Glover Barkla, Joan Gamper, Frederick Soddy, Muhammad Iqbal, Francis William Aston, Heinrich Otto Wieland, G. H. Hardy, and Louis Renault. Among people deceased in 1927, Isadora Duncan ranks 1. After her are Svante Arrhenius, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Willem Einthoven, Juan Gris, Ferdinand I of Romania, Albrecht Kossel, Carlota of Mexico, Gaston Leroux, Andranik, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and Kang Youwei.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Isadora Duncan ranks 116 out of 20,380. Before her are John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928), Joan Baez (1941), Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927), Jack Nicholson (1937), Madonna (1958), and Jane Addams (1860). After her are Tupac Shakur (1971), Noam Chomsky (1928), James Dean (1931), Ted Bundy (1946), Barack Obama (1961), and Chuck Norris (1940).

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Among DANCERS In United States

Among dancers born in United States, Isadora Duncan ranks 1. After her are Josephine Baker (1906), Martha Graham (1894), Maria Tallchief (1925), Merce Cunningham (1919), William Forsythe (1949), Alvin Ailey (1931), John Neumeier (1939), Doris Humphrey (1895), Adam Darius (1930), Yvonne Rainer (1934), and Katherine Dunham (1909).

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