Irma Duncan

Irma Duncan (February 26, 1897 – September 20, 1977) was a German-born American dancer and a teacher of dance.

Biography Duncan (born Irma Dorette Henriette Ehrich-Grimme) was born on February 26, 1897, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

In 1905, she began studying with American-born dancer and choreographer Isadora Duncan at her school in the Berlin suburb of Grünewald, Germany.

In 1921, she relocated to Moscow where she taught at the Duncan School. She became the director of the school in 1924 when Isadora Duncan left to return to the United States. That group, the Isadora Duncan Dancers of Moscow, toured in the Soviet Union, China and the U.S. At the end of the 1929 U.S. tour, Irma chose to stay in the U.S. rather than return to Moscow.

Duncan died on September 20, 1977, in Santa Barbara, California.