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Being Isadora
No full textBeing Isadora is a story of possession. Isadora Duncan, the founder of modern dance, was an intensely creative, free-spirited woman. Her life experiences early last century were as fascinating and tragic as her achievements.\ud
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In New York in 1985, Isadora's last surviving pupil and adopted daughter, ninety-year old Anna Duncan, is searching for a way to fulfill a long held promise. Isadora wished to control the way she was remembered and had made Anna promise that any remaining film of her dancing would be destroyed. But one film survives and Anna is running out of time to find it. \ud
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A young Australian journalist, Tamsin Doyle, attends a dance class at the Isadora Duncan Studio and meets Anna, unknowingly becoming part of the quest. \ud
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Initially the stories of Isadora and Tamsin run parallel, then as Tamsin gets to know Anna, she becomes immersed in a dream world of dramatic incidents from Isadora's life. The dreams become waking experiences and she fears her will is gradually being taken over. She ends up in places - in fact other countries - that she had no intention of being, pursuing an agenda that is not her own. \ud
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In the second part of the book, she finds herself in Russia, where Isadora lived after the Revolution. She meets and falls in love with Vladimir, the grandson of Isadora's former dance collaborator. Unable to prevent herself being possessed while visiting the school Isadora founded, Tamsin is arrested by the authorities. A Russian KGB officer has his own plans and abducts her, keeping her prisoner in a dacha outside Moscow. He shows her a film of herself dancing and then the surviving film of Isadora. The two are almost identical and a dramatic climax ensues. \ud
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Themes in the book explore the nature of memory and how it is influenced by photographic and filmic record, love and loss and the way patterns repeat in people's lives in an attempt to change outcomes
Isadora Williams Weaving Notebook II
No full textThis notebook was compiled by Isadora Williams, probably in the mid-1930s, during her attendance at one of the Weaving Institutes sponsored by the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts). The notebook contains mostly instructions for weaving patterns along with weaving samples. The weaving instructions, also called weaving drafts, are in the form of typed instructions produced by weaving instructor Edward Worst and Williams' accompanying hand-written weaving drafts and notes on treadling. Many of Worst's typed drafts also include small black and white photographs of the finished weaving pattern. Isadora Williams (1884-1976) was a Home Marketing Specialist with the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, and was an accomplished rug weaver and a founding member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. She attended the summer Weaving Institutes at Penland several times during the 1930s and 1940s
Isadora Williams Weaving Notebook I
No full textThis notebook (front cover is missing) was compiled by Isadora Williams, probably in the early 1930s, during her attendance at one of the Weaving Institutes sponsored by the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts). The notebook contains mostly weaving patterns or weaving drafts in the form of typed instructions produced by weaving instructor Edward Worst and Williams' accompanying hand-written drafts. The notebook also contains some hand woven samples, Williams' notes on dyeing with natural materials, brief biographical information on Worst, printed excerpts about the early history of the summer courses by Bonnie Willis Ford, and a list of students and instructors from the 1931, 1932, and undated Weaving Institutes. Isadora Williams (1884-1976) was a Home Marketing Specialist with the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, and was an accomplished rug weaver and a founding member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. She attended the summer Weaving Institutes at Penland several times during the 1930s and 1940s
Festival de Fi de Curs del Studio Isadora
No full textPrograma del Festival de Fí de Curs del Studio Isadora celebrat el 17 de juny de 198
Cloenda del curs 2000-2001 del Studio Isadora
No full textPrograma del Festival de fí de curs del Studio Isadora, celebrat el 16 de juny de 2001
Festival de Fi de Curs del Studio Isadora
No full textPrograma del Festival de Fí de Curs del Studio Isadora celebrat el 13 de juny de 198
Isadora Williams Weaving Notebook I, back cover
No full textThis notebook (front cover is missing) was compiled by Isadora Williams, probably in the early 1930s, during her attendance at one of the Weaving Institutes sponsored by the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts). The notebook contains mostly weaving patterns or weaving drafts in the form of typed instructions produced by weaving instructor Edward Worst and Williams' accompanying hand-written drafts. The notebook also contains some hand woven samples, Williams' notes on dyeing with natural materials, brief biographical information on Worst, printed excerpts about the early history of the summer courses by Bonnie Willis Ford, and a list of students and instructors from the 1931, 1932, and undated Weaving Institutes. Isadora Williams (1884-1976) was a Home Marketing Specialist with the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, and was an accomplished rug weaver and a founding member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. She attended the summer Weaving Institutes at Penland several times during the 1930s and 1940s
Cloenda del curs 2001-2002 del Studio Isadora
No full textPrograma del Festival de fí de curs del Studio Isadora, celebrat el 15 de juny de 2002
Festival de Fi de Curs del Studio Isadora
No full textPrograma del Festival de Fí de Curs del Studio Isadora celebrat el 12 de juny de 1981. Conté notes sobre el "Carnaval" de Schuman i lletres de cançons populars catalanes que s'interprete
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