A Note From Lori Belilove, Artistic Director:
We welcome our guests from all walks of life who love art, culture and dance. The evening will begin with opening remarks by the marvelous dance enthusiast Tom Phillips. Following performance and the Q&A, we will be serving Isadora’s favorite German Chocolate Cake (Amy’s Bread) along with savory reception foods. Stay and mingle with the dancers!
About the Program:
This program will pay homage to Motherhood with Isadora’s “Mother" to the music of Scriabin, the "Ave Maria" by Schubert with Vocalist Amber Evans. One of Isadora’s masterpieces, “Ave Maria” was first choreographed as a solo and then later a group work in 1915 when Isadora returns to the stage from the depths of sorrow follow the tragic death of her two children, and summons the Virgin Mary as Mother earth to deliver a message of joy. I selected the "Ave Maria" to open the program to pull us into a spiritual heart-warming as we celebrate yet again, another birthday honoring the mother of modern dance.
Additional signature solos include a suite of the Brahms Waltzes “The Many Faces of Love” with the fantastic "Flames of the Heart”, performed this season by Carolyn Yamada followed by Chopin’s mystical “Death and the Maiden” performed by Emily D'Angelo. And what would a celebration be with the Roma/Gypsy expressions from the repertorie without the famous red scarf dances (?) performed tonight by Hayley Rose and Samantha Mercado! To close the program, we will showcase a contemporary work I created around my own struggles with motherhood to the music of Ennio Morricone's Ave Maria Guarani. I have always embraced Isadora as an inspirational “femiine feminist” as well as an revolutionary wild spirit who embraced life. telling her students I have reached such high peaks flooded with light, but my soul has no strength to live there – no one has realized the horrible torture from which I have tried to escape. Someday you will understand too all I have lived through, and then you will only think of the light towards which I have pointed - and you will know the real Isadora is there.
Gather your questions and share your observations in our post show Q & A!
Upcoming Events:
May 18th - Free Community Class on Governors Island - Manhattan, NY
May 20th - Free New York Public Library Manuscript Reveal - Manhattan, NY
June 1st - LongHouse Reserve Performance and Community class - East Hampton, NY
June 21st - July 6th - Isadora Duncan Technique & Repertory Workshop - Manhattan, NY
September 1st - Untermyer Gardens performance - Yonkers, NY
September 6th - Greenwood Gardens performance - Short Hills, New Jersey
October 19th - Bartow- Pell Mansion performance - Bronx, NY
Isadora150, a celebration of the 150th year of Isadora Duncan’s birth in 1877, heralds the compelling legacy of one of America’s most significant dance artists. The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation will host an ongoing series of performances, films, panels discussions, book readings, workshops, to celebrate Duncan through 2027.
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News At The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation:
The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation contracts the nationally well-reputed DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the University of Maryland, to seek Executive/Management Leadership Planning Services.
The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation (IDDF) is at an inflection point in its organizational trajectory. The Board of Directors and the Founder and Artistic Director, Lori Belilove, wish to make a critical and meaningful investment in the organization’s executive and management capacity, with the long-term goal of positioning Belilove to focus on the artistic leadership of the organization and ensure the Foundation’s long-term sustainability.
Want to know more?
The Institute’s management philosophy, the Cycle, insists that organizational activity needs to prioritize investment in great art. As such, with a mission-driven bold approach to programming and aggressive marketing we hope to produce a swell of interest and enthusiasm among a ‘Friends of the Foundation” family of ticket-buyers, students, board members, donors, funders, and volunteers.
Any nonprofit organization must fundraise to support its work.
Our goal is to build, through the guidance of the De Vos Institute, the most incredible period of growth to prepare to celebrate Isadora Duncan’s 150th Birthday in the year 2027.
Will you join us, will you support?
The IDDF Board of Directors welcomes new member, Bob Milotte.