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Northampton, MA, March 05, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Dancer, adventurer, revolutionary, ardent defender of the poetic spirit, Isadora Duncan has been one of the most enduring influences on 20th century society and culture. She is the only dancer who can truly be called a world historical figure. Virtually alone, she restored dance to a high place among the arts, restoring the art of dance back to its roots as a sacred art. Isadora communicated a wildly generous, all embracing revolutionary spirit, a passionate enthusiasm for a new and exalted life of creativity and freedom. In “The Art of Dance” she wrote; “For me the dance is not only the art that gives expression to the human soul through movement, but also the foundation of a complete conception of life, more free, more harmonious, more natural.” She felt that the ultimate goal of dance was the expression of universal feelings flowing from the dancer's own sources of deepest emotion. “To dance is to live.”

Isadora founded three schools, the first, in Grunewald, Germany gave rise to her most celebrated group of pupils, known as "the Isadorables," who took her surname and subsequently performed both with Duncan and independently.

Cynthia James brings her own excellence of an artistic lifetime to the jamescyn collection. She studied at the Royal Ballet School in London and now specializes in the technique and choreography of Isadora Duncan. Cynthia was deeply moved and inspired when she was introduced to the repertoire of Isadora Duncan through Gemze de Lappe in 1981. She studied Duncan’s technique and choreography with de Lappe at Smith College in Northampton and with Sylvia Gold in Boston, both authentically trained Duncan dancers who had studied with Isadora’s adopted daughter, Irma Duncan - http://www.isadoradances.com

Her work as a dancer and choreographer has expanded to include work as a costumière and couturière for dance, opera and musical theatre.

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