Isadorables
The Isadorables were a group of six young girls, Anna Denzler, Maria-Theresa Kruger, Irma Erich-Grimme, Elizabeth Milker, Margot Jehl, and Erica Lohmann, who danced under the instruction of Isadora Duncan.
"[3] She took in young children, most of whom, reflecting Duncan's personal history, came from disadvantaged backgrounds, where mothers were the primary breadwinners, and the fathers were either ill or absent.
These six were Anna Denzler, Maria-Theresa Krüger, Irma Erich-Grimme, Elizabeth (Lisa) Milker, Margot (Gretel) Jehl, and Erica (Erika) Lohmann.
Henrietta Rodman in a feature for the New York Tribune as much as stated that the most revolutionary of dancers [Isadora Duncan] had lost touch with the times.
"[5] Mabel Dodge, who owned a salon at 23 Fifth Avenue, the point of rendezvous for the whole of New York's avant garde of the time, described the girls: "They were lovely, with bodies like cream and rose, and faces unreal with beauty whose eyes were like blind statues, as though they had never looked upon anything in any way sordid or ordinary".
The girls, then, would not travel with her to Greece at the expense of their safety during the time of war: They moved to set up school in Switzerland instead.
[7] The New York court rejected the girls’ petition because neither Isadora nor any of her family members ever authorized in writing their consent for any of them to use the Duncan surname, for professional purposes.
"It was [our] success as a group" Theresa wrote, "without Isadora for the first time...that gave us the opportunity to find our own strength as soloists and individual artists."
[citation needed] In 1920, after returning to France, the girls finally realized that their contracts no longer held substance, so they threw them away.
Irma, Theresa, Lisa, and Margot were left doing nothing in Paris because Isadora refused to have them perform and only let them if they gave her a third of their fees.
Liesel [Lisa] is long-haired and long-legged, physically the best dancer of any of them.... Gretel is a thoughtful child, filled with a sense of her dignity and somewhat mystified with the American manner of doing things.
One must be conservative in such matters"[9] Anna Denzler (born 1894 in Switzerland, died 1980[10] in New York) – "pretty and dark-haired with round rosy cheeks and small chocolate-brown eyes".
[11] Maria-Theresa Kruger (born 1895 in Dresden, died 1987 in New York) – "blue eyes, blond hair, and a lot of freckles on her tiny nose".
Margot (Gretel) Jehl (born 1900 in Berlin, died 1925 in Paris) – "with violet eyes, ash-blond hair and the delicate look of a Dresden China-Doll".
[14] Louis Jouvet, the famed French actor and director, was Lisa's companion and acted as her lighting designer.
Erica (Erika, the only Isadorable not to continue a dancing career), became a painter, according to sometime director of Isadora Duncan International Institute Ms.
The event was conceived by one of Theresa's own pupils, who directed the Isadora Duncan International Institute.
