Isadora Duncan, a true founder of modern dancing, had spent many years in touring and performing over the world. Her interpretation of music and poetry through the physical movement had once been slated by the critics as an unnecessary creation but gained her worldwide popularity. On the stage, her dancing with loose hairs, bare feet and flowing costumes was distinguished as the complete freedom of movement. She was also a prominent model in the women's right movement. She was full of her own ideas, not afraid to break the convention and always bold of her opinions.

She was against marriage all her life but was married with Russian poet Sergey Yesnin, who was 17 years younger than her, for the purpose of bringing him into the States (Isadora was born in California though she spent most of her life in Europe). In 1920s, it was the height of the Red Scare and one of the most conservative periods in the United States. Therefore, when Isadora brought out her husband on the stage at the Symphony Hall, Boston in 1922, memebers of the audience shouted abuse at her. She made an impassioned speech to protect her husband and herself. "America has all that Russia has not. Russia has things America has not." she said, "Why will America not reach out a hand to Russia, as I have given my hand?" More than that, she waved the red scarf and bared a breast, declaring "nudity is the truth, it is beauty, it is art!!" But the audience fled the hall.

The uproar that night forced her to leave the States again. But this time, she told the reporter, "Good-bye America, I shall never see you again!!" And she never did. She died in a car accident in 1927 when her long scarf entangled with the rear wheel of the car to cause her strangled. But she is always remembered as a true artist, for telling us not just to get 10 percent of our life, for to the frightened audience she said so proudly, "you were once wild here, don't let them tame you!