Upcoming Performances
May Salon Performances Celebrating Isadora's Birthday
Friday May 10th - 7:30 PM
Saturday May 11th - 7:30PM
Sunday May 12th - 3:00PM
Raw and unassuming, vibrant and sensual, the dancers are swathed and silk and born aloft by Duncan's brilliant musicality...
Experience the beauty of Isadora Duncan's Dance with these intimate Salon performances. Tickets include pre/post show talkbacks, wine & bubbly, birthday cake reception, and live piano accompaniment - all celebrating motherhood and Isadora's 147th birthday.
Isadora’s favorite German Chocolate birthday cake provided by Amy’s Bread
Lori Belilove, Artistic Director
Dancers: Emily D'Angelo, Hayley Rose, Caroline Yamada, Samuel Humphreys, Diana Uribe, Samantha Mercado, Kirsten Ashley Keane (Apprentice)
Pianist Jeremy Chan
Vocalist Amber Evans
NYPL Manuscript Reveal
Free event at the New York Public Library!
Third generation Duncan dancer and Artistic Director of the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation & Company, Lori Belilove makes public for the first time Isadora Duncan’s early manuscript, “Exercizes for the Dance.” Contrary to myth and popular misconception, Belilove says this document reveals that, Duncan had a coherent technique and guiding principles. Belilove expounds, with demonstration, Duncan’s role as the “Mother of Modern Dance” in the context of this early formative handwritten document.
An American pioneer of dance, Isadora Duncan was a self-styled revolutionary who condemned the rigidity of ballet and championed free dance coupled with her view of the ideals of ancient Greece: beauty, art, and philosophy.
This will be the first in a series of programming by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division to celebrate 150 years of the legacy of Isadora Duncan.
SEATING POLICY | Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requested. Check-in line forms 45 minutes before the advertised start time. Registered guests are given priority check-in 15 to 30 minutes before start time. Five minutes before the advertised start time, all seats are released, regardless of registration, to our patrons in the stand-by line. If you arrive after the program starts, you will be seated at the discretion of our front-of-house staff.
STANDBY LINE | If registration is sold out or has ended, do not fret! We welcome you to come to the Library regardless of registration status and wait in our standby line, which forms 45 minutes before the advertised start time. Five minutes before the program starts, all remaining seats are released. While this is not guaranteed, we will do our best to get you into any of our programs.
Untermyer Gardens
Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company return to the historic Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers, NY!
More details to come…
Greenwood Gardens, NJ
Music and Dance in the Garden Concert Series
Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company
Friday, September 6
Rain date, Saturday, September 7
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. (Dance begins at 6:30 p.m.)
Generously Sponsored by Stone Mountain Properties
Dancer, adventurer, and ardent defender of the free spirit, Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) is credited with inventing what came to be known as Modern Dance. With free-flowing costumes, bare feet, and loose hair, she took to the stage inspired by the ancient Greeks, the music of classical composers, the wind, and the sea. Since 1980, the legacy of her unique style and repertoire has been carried forward by Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company, the resident performing troupe of its namesake foundation. This performance represents the troupe’s third performance at Greenwood, simply a magical experience! Light refreshments. Main Lawn seating.
$50 members; $55 non-members
Bartow-Pell Mansion
Join us in Bartow-Pell’s terraced garden for a site- specific dance performance featuring Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company.
More details to come…
Annual Gala
The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation’s Annual Gala will be Fall 2024
Join us for an unforgettable evening of dancing, history, great food, and fine company at The Frederick R. Koch Foundation’s opulent townhouse on East 80th Street in Manhattan. The event will celebrate 44 years since the inception of The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation and the work of so many, to sustain the legacy of the dance of Isadora.
Don’t miss coming to this special night and celebrate!
All the proceeds from the 2024 Gala will go to support performances by the dance company and our transformative educational programs.
More details coming soon.
Earth Day at Governors Island
Governors Island’s third annual Earth Day celebration will celebrate the power of native plants through free educational activities and workshops for all ages, guided tours through the Island’s open space, a participatory mural inspired by the relationship between milkweed and Monarch butterflies, Governors Island Nature activities, and volunteer stewardship projects.
Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company will perform during the festivities offering a suite featuring Isadora’s Butterfly & Harp Etude performed by dancers Hayley Rose and Emily D’Angelo.
The festivities will take place on Saturday, April 20, 2024, from 10am to 3pm.
Exact timing of the performance at 1:00PM on Colonel’s Row (see map below).
This is a free public event
Valentines' Salon Performance Saturday 2/17
Isadora asked her young students, “What is Love?” in 1904 she was madly in love with scenic designer, Gordon Craig…
Join Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company for an intimate Valentines’ Salon Performance featuring live piano music, mouthwatering foods, bubbly, and Isadora’s’ suite of Schuberts’ Waltzes & Brahms’ Waltzes op.39, The Many Faces of Love.
Programming will include performances by Lori Belilove and Company Dancers Emily D'Angelo, Samuel Humphreys, Nikki Poulos, Samantha Mercado, Hayley Rose, Diana Uribe, Caroline Yamada and Company Apprentices.
Pianist Jeremy Chan
Sold Out of Senior/Child discounted seats, sold out of 2 for 1,
Valentines' Salon Performance Friday 2/16
The perfect date for anyone who loves Valentine's Day, hates Valentine's Day, and everyone in between.
Join Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company for an intimate Valentines’ Salon Performance featuring live piano music, mouthwatering foods, bubbly, and Isadora’s’ suite of Schuberts’ Waltzes & Brahms’ Waltzes op.39, The Many Faces of Love.
Programming will include performances by Lori Belilove and Company Dancers Emily D'Angelo, Samuel Humphreys, Nikki Poulos, Samantha Mercado, Hayley Rose, Diana Uribe, Caroline Yamada and Company Apprentices.
Pianist Jeremy Chan
*Online in-person sales will end before the show. Space permitting we will except exact cash at the door
*Please keep in mind, last minute zoom orders may not be processed in time
Valentines' Salon Performance Wednesday 2/14
Let’s bring out unrequited love, dark romance, the brokenhearted, the scandalous tales and possible love triangles…
Join Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company for an intimate Valentines’ Salon Performance featuring live piano music, mouthwatering foods, bubbly, and Isadora’s’ suite of Schuberts’ Waltzes & Brahms’ Waltzes op.39, The Many Faces of Love.
Programming will include performances by Lori Belilove and Company Dancers Emily D'Angelo, Samuel Humphreys, Nikki Poulos, Samantha Mercado, Hayley Rose, Diana Uribe, Caroline Yamada and Company Apprentices.
Pianist Jeremy Chan
** Advanced ordering for In-person seats has ended.
Space allowing, we will accept exact cash at the door for standing room only.
National Arts Club for Archaeology
The Medal of Honor for Achievement in Archaeology will be presented to The American School of Classical Studies at Athens by The National Arts Club for Archaeology on Wednesday, January 24 2024.
With the goal of bringing diverse people together, the National Arts Club considers itself privileged to arrange lectures related to our shared humanity. We believe that knowledge of antiquity’s Hellas is fundamental for comprehending the historic flow of civilizations, for analyzing the role artistic beauty plays in our lives as well as for understanding today’s political disputes concerning the very meaning of democracy. Internationally renowned speakers at this gala celebration are Mary Lefkowitz and John McK. Camp. Also featuring will be The Mediterranean, composed by Spehen Peak and performers Emily D’Angelo and Hayley Rose performing Isadora Duncan’s Tanagra Figures, with a special staging by Lori Belilove . Music composition “Ancient Figures” will be performed live by composer John Link .
During this celebratory event, Lori Belilove will also screen her choreography for Selinunte, filmed at the Temple of Hera in Selinunte, Magna Greacia, in Sicily. Choreography by Lori Belilove performed by Lori Belilove, Cherlyn Smith, Karen Dantzler, Beth Disharoon, and Julia Pond. Music (Into the Ground) composed by John Link and performed by the John Link Project. Video editing by Angelo Bozzolini. Music and sound editing by John Link. Costumes by Lori Belilove. Produced by the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation in conjunction with the Culture De Mari, Italo Gomez, Director. 4 minutes and 26 seconds.
6:00 PM Cocktails | 7:30 PM Dinner
$150 NAC Members / $250 Guests of Members
Ave Maria at St Francis Xavier
All are welcome to attend St Francis Xavier’s Christmas Eve Mass Service, where Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company will be appearing to perform Isadora’s Ave Maria.
Free to all. Enter on 16th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues
Apprentice Auditions
Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company is seeking dancers for Company Apprenticeships and Work Study Positions.
BIPOC Strongly encouraged to apply. Male and Female identifying dancers invited to apply. Covid-19 Vaccination required.
Rolling Auditions – To audition please fill out the form below. We will be reviewing application materials, and inviting participates to audition on a day of their choosing.
Audition will be via a Company or community class on Thursdays 10AM, or Saturdays 12PM.
You must be available both days for class and rehearsals. (Thursday 10 - 2, Saturdays 12 - 4)
Training Background: intermediate/advanced modern; intermediate/advanced ballet. Performing experience required. Duncan technique a plus.
Age Range: 21-28
Opportunities include: training in technique of Isadora Duncan, school performances and demonstrations. For further information about the Company, our upcoming classes, performances and tours, visit www.isadoraduncan.org.
To apply please fill out the following form
Any questions email classes@isadoraduncan.org
The Art of the Dance of Isadora Duncan Today
Hosted by The Manor Club of Pelham.
Tickets can be purchased as a performance with high tea for $15 (begins at 1:30pm)
OR
For non-members performance and a lunch is $35 (begins at 12:00pm)
To reserve your ticket please call 914 738-1528
Bartow-Pell Mansion
Join us in Bartow-Pell’s terraced garden for a site- specific dance performance featuring Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company. Every attendee will receive an elegant picnic refreshment basket that includes a prosecco mini bottle and plastic flute, grapes, cheese & crackers, and cookies to enjoy while watching the performance. Bartow-Pell will provide picnic blankets or bring your favorite lawn chair. There will be a short Q & A session following the performance.
Untermyer Gardens
Sunday, September 3 at 5:00 PM, RAIN DATE Monday, September 4 at 5:00 PM.
Come witness history come to life at Untermyer Gardens Amphitheater as we return to Untermyer Gardens for another mesmerizing Labor Day weekend performance. Immerse yourself in the groundbreaking modern dance of the early twentieth century, set to beautiful classical music, amidst the scenic beauty of the Untermyer Gardens.
Join us in a celebration of the past and the present, as we pay homage to the Isadora Dancers who performed here in 1923 and 1932. Watch in awe as the world-famous dancers bring to life their innovative and revolutionary movements that have captured the hearts of audiences for over a century.
The Untermyer Gardens Amphitheater is the perfect venue for this captivating performance, with its rich history and picturesque surroundings providing a stunning backdrop for the dancers to perform on their newly-expanded stage.
Fort Tryon Park Trust
The Isadora Duncan Dance Company returns to Fort Tryon Park for a free performance of inspiring dances to delight audiences of all ages. After the performance, stay for a community class – open to all!
Bring your friends and family and a blanket to enjoy this performance and workshop in a beautiful setting with the Hudson River as a backdrop. Come dance with us!
Battery Dance Festival
In this Free Outdoor Performance Lori Belilove & Company will pay homage to Ukraine through the work of Isadora. The Company will perform “Tribute to Ukraine” honoring the heroism and valor and grit of the Ukrainian people. Belilove, herself a descendant of Ukrainian ancestry, reimagines these Isadora Duncan dances that evoke the cry, the terror, the loss.
APAP 2023
Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company is thrilled to participate in APAP at City Center and at The Ailey Citigroup Theater on January 14th and 15th, 2023.
More details coming soon.
International Human Rights Arts Festival
Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company will be presenting “Tribute to Ukraine” in the International Human Rights Arts Festival – Winterfest 2023.
This will be an evening of short, 10 minute plays reflecting values of beauty, sincerity, vulnerability, engagement and celebrating diversity; work inspired by the open-heart of the artist, and not their anger, disgust or disapproval. Lori Belilove & Co. are proud to contribute dance to this evening celebrating Human Rights.
WADE Into Activism
Lori Belilove is pleased to be contributing a solo performance of Isadora Duncan’s Revolutionary in this year’s WADE Into Activism performance.
WADEintoACTIVISM is a hybrid, performing arts festival presenting work by female and historically underrepresented artists and conversations with feminist allies surrounding gender-based violence. We are joining the UN Women’s Generation Equality campaign and their 16 days of activism against rape and any form of violence against women and girls. WADE into ACTIVISM is made up of performances, conversations, and interviews by artists and activists centered around gender-based violence, reproductive rights, trafficking, toxic masculinity, erasure, identity, and power. This event takes on global and multifarious perspectives, our participants’ voices hailing from all over the world.
Winter Salon 2022
Show Dates: Saturday December 3rd, 8:00PM / Sunday December 4th, 3:00PM / Sunday December 4th 7:30PM
Join Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company as they present their intimate Winter Salon featuring exciting repertory favorites.
Programming will include performances by Company Dancers Emily D’Angelo, Samuel Humphreys, Samantha Mercado, Hayley Rose, Diana Uribe, and Caroline Yamada. Guest Speakers TBA.
Masks are required for this event. In-person and Virtual tickets available. Discounted Children (12 and under) and Senior rate tickets are available for the Sunday matinee. *All virtual tickets registrations will receive a ZOOM link 24hrs before show. For day of virtual registrations please call (212) 691 – 5040
American Dance Guild Performance Festival
The first LIVE ADG Performance Festival since the Covid Pandemic: Return, Renew, Rejoice!
Lori Belilove & Co. will perform on FRIDAY, December 2 at 8pm. Other choreographers of the evening include: Becky Brown, Greg Hurley, Briele Melahn, Peggy Choy, Douglas Dunn, Gwen Bye/Pauline Koner, Connie Procopio, Mary Ford Sussman/Hadassah, H.T. Chen. Tickets are $20/$25 or $75 for the full season pass.