Isadora was certainly a revolutionary, and I've been privileged to study under her contemporaries. Duncan dance has opened my world in many ways, and reading this, I very much appreciate many of her ideas - but her racism is despicable. Yes, this was written before desegregation, but for such a feminist, "modern" thinker, I'm still shocked at her elitism (really, Greek art is the only art that inspires true beauty and attunement to nature? African dance is primal and animalistic? UGH).

This book has beautiful excerpts, as every dancer knows. But it’s just that, excerpts. Isadora Duncan was incredibly racist, as she shows in this book, and incredibly hateful. She can’t write something beautiful without insulting someone else first. This was a let down. I thought I’d be reading beautiful thoughts about dance but instead was reading racism and hate on paper.

This collection of Isadora Duncan's essays, published after her death, is invaluable to any Duncan dancer or scholar. While the incomparable My Life deals mostly with the events of her personal life, this book contains her thoughts on dance itself, and one reading destroys forever the mistaken impression that Isadora was a dancer without technique. It's a wonderful book to elicit a powerful wish to study Duncan dance. Woefully out of print, it can be obtained for exorbiant prices from ebay, or bought from the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation.