Nahumck, Nadia Chilkovsky et al. — Isadora Duncan: The Dances

Washington, D.C. The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1994. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, silver titling; black & color illus. dust jacket, 532 pp. Numerous bw photo reproductions, and dance notation charts throughout; weighs 6.5 lbs. Dust-jacket dampstaining does not affect interior of the volume. The first volume of Duncan's published choreographies. Dance scores written in the notational system invented by Rudolf Laban, attesting to a dance technique of singular elegance and simplicity applied by Duncan with great choreographic skill to encompass all the complexities of basic human expression. After several chapters of background, the dance scores begin: exercises, children's dances, dance impressions of Russia, and dances to music by Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Corelli, Gluck, Schubert, Scriabin, Strauss, and Tchaikovsky. "Over 300 dances and dance exercises by Isadora Duncan and her proteges recorded in Labanotation." (dj). VG/G+ (edge-wear, scuffs & scratches to boards. shelf-wear/scuff to lower textblock edge. light toning to pg edges. dustjacket has edge-wear & to front edge; rubbing to corners w/ slight tears; spine ends rubbed; interior lower spine & edge area have dampstaining; bubbling to spine) .