This work presents an unbiased picture of a colourful, talented, and extraordinary life. Ean Wood's latest biography Headlong Through Life: The Story of Isadora Duncan tells the story of this colourful, talented and infuriating woman whose genius inspired a generation of influential dancers and choreographers, from Michel Fokine to Sir Frederick Ashton. Drawing on numerous primary sources - letters, diaries and memoirs of her contemporaries and associates, together with her own journals - the author succeeds in imposing a narrative order on the breathless chaos of her existence. Isadora Duncan's beautiful career juxtaposes with her personal life, which was full of tragedy and lost opportunities, money, friends and lovers. Yet Isadora's guiding principle remained the pre-eminence of Art, as she declared 'nothing else matters'!