I adore scarves. So who was Isadora?

Hi R / wonderful, creative, individual  women out there / and the men who love and put up with us..........

It was time to start a new file within my blogger file, which I called 'Women to Admire'.  The impetus for this particular blog, was wanting to record how much I adore scarves, hence the question "Who was Isadora?" 
 hence .....
Having read more about her, I doubt I would slot her into that category.  Perhaps -  Amazing Women / Women who danced / Women who moved ahead of the pack etc. 

 Personally I  admire her for her amazing spirit, and as with other feminist women, she blazed our trail.  "What trail?" our daughters may ask.  Another day, another blog, but believe me, "Baby, we have come a long way." 

The famous poet and writer Carl Sandburg in his poem, Isadora Duncan: wrote:

"The wind? I am the wind.
The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon.
Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am.
Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea?
 I dance what I am."      Isadora Duncan

ps - I had a personal 'Isadora moment'.  With my burnt orange scarf around my neck, having bought G his delicious salad at Cafe Balmoral, an unsuspecting male stood on the end of my trailing scarf.  Suddenly, I felt an alarming tightening around my neck. 

What is the ending to this story?
Clara

Clar

Then - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Isadora Duncan
Born - 1877 San Francisco, California, U.S.   Nice, France Field -  Dance and choreography
Died - 1927 (aged 50)

Movement -  Modern dance
Isadora Duncan  was a dancer, considered by many to be the creator of modern dance. Born in the United States, she lived in Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. In the United States she was popular only in New York, and then only later in her life. She performed to acclaim throughout Europe.

Duncan's fondness for flowing scarves was the cause of her death in a freak automobile accident in Nice, France. Duncan's large silk scarf, while still draped around her neck, became entangled around one of the vehicle's open-spoked wheels and rear axle, breaking her neck.
She was a pioneer of 20th-century American dance, often credited with moving dance away from strict formal structures and toward more free-flowing forms of personal expression. She wore Grecian-style gowns, often performed barefoot, and startled audiences by employing such everyday human movements as skipping and running.

An Unconventional Life
 In 1913, both children, with their nurse, drowned in an accident on the Seine River. They were returning home after a lunch with Isadora and Paris Singer.

In 1922, she married Sergei Yesenin, a Russian poet who was eighteen years her junior. Yesenin was also an alcoholic whose drunken rages brought Isadora negative publicity. Within a year, he returned to Russia where he suffered a mental breakdown and was institutionalized. Upon his release, he died under mysterious circumstances on December 28, 1925. Isadora was a bisexual and had lesbian relationships with the poet Mercedes de Acosta and the writer Natalie Barney.


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Shop Till You Drop!

Hi R
Off for the weekend - G plays Masters Squash while I do Sans Squash and Apre Squash. Sans Squash happens on Saturday where I Shop Till I Drop - 'Sex and the City' has nothing on me when I am let loose in a new town, whether it be a city or a funny little country town with shops with names like Fossies and Cut Price Basement.

Actually, there is more of a focus on craft in the country and sometimes I stumble across a Niddy Noddy look alike. Tomorrow, however, my special Mother to Be and I will meet up at a nearby mall to do some window shopping for baby stuff which is very exciting.

On Sunday, I do some supporting of the master squash player, coming in for the kill so to speak since by then it's time for the last deciding match.

Apre Squash is similar to Apre Ski - where I dress up, often sporting a new item of clothing bought that day, to attend the Dinner Dance usually held at the local RSL or Bowling Club. And a dinner dance it is with the emphasis on Dance rather than dinner (which tends to be rather ordinary for a lover of intense flavours). Everyone, like everyone, except those who have injuries from the day's play and since 'Masters' is code for 'Oldies' there tend tobe a few limps and elastic bandages ankles etc. The local Rock and Roll band is amazed at the enthusiasm with which these 'Masters' dance the night away, and a few 'friendships' are cemented in the process.

Wish you were here to join in the fun

C