Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco and grew up within a family for which playing music, reading poetry and dancing were common activities. She expresses her love for dance from the age of five and since then she has gathered other kids to give them dance lessons. She started off taking ballet classes but learned that she hated ballet, arguing that she wants to create a different dance, free from the classical ballet and closer to her nature. This is how she starts an artistic journey that will last till the end of her life. Duncan faced horrible tragedies in her life, with her two children, Deirdre and Patrick, along with their nurse, who were drowned in the Seine River in Paris. The car they were riding in had stopped running. The driver got out to fix the engine, but he did not set the brakes. When the car suddenly started again, it ran down a bank into the river. This affected her so much to the point she didn't think she would dance again. .
In 1922, she married a Russian poet named Sergei Yesenin. He became a violent alcoholic and then had a mental breakdown and killed himself three years later. She later died in a tragedy when she was a passenger in a brand-new convertible sports car that she was learning to drive. As she leaned back in her seat, her enormous red scarf somehow blew into the well of the rear wheel on the passenger side. It wound around the axle, tightening around Duncan's neck and dragging her from the car and onto the cobblestone street; she died instantly. When she danced, Duncan wore very thin clothing. Sometimes she dressed in long white tunics, the kind of clothing worn by ancient Greek women. She wanted people to see her body as she skipped, jumped and ran barefoot across the stage. Some people criticized her for doing this; they thought it was not moral to dress this way. At the time, most women wore dresses that covered as much of the body as possible, especially the arms and legs.