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.

Bartow-Pell Mansion is the last remaining 19th-century estate in the Bronx’s Pelham Bay Park, is a cultural and educational institution that serves the broader New York City community. The Bartow-Pell Conservancy works to preserve and maintain the historic Greek Revival mansion and carriage house, as well as the museum’s collection, its gardens, and the surrounding landscape, and to interpret the site’s history with innovative and dynamic educational and public programming for students, adults, and families.

Tickets $40

Tickets Available Here

Music and Dance in the Garden Concert Series

Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company  

Friday, September 6
Rain date, Saturday, September 7

5:3p.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

More information here

Program for the evening available to View Here.

POSTPONED TO 9/2/24 at 5:30PM DUE TO WEATHER. Tickets still available…

Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company return to the historic Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers, NY!

Untermyer Gardens welcomes back the legendary Lori Belilove and The Isadora Duncan Dance Company 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 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.
***RAIN DATE Monday, September 2 at 5:30 PM***

Tickets $50

Tickets Available Here

Program for the Evening Available to View Here

Join Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company for an exciting day at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton, NY.

Community Class 3:00 - 3:45pm

Performance 5:00 - 5:45pm with Q&A to follow

Tickets and More Information Here

The company will perform dances that highlight the unique qualities of Duncan's repertoire, from the early lyrical pieces to the tragic solos. There will be a Q & A following the performance. Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times said of the company, "Lori Belilove and her company stand out...fervently committed performances...insights and revelations...sensuality...brilliant."

A Community Class will precede the performance at 3:00 pm. The beauty, grace, and athleticism of Isadora Duncan modern technique develops strength, musicality, and freedom of movement for dancers of all levels. The instructors will introduce the principles of moving in the Duncan style with full upper body movement warm up sequences followed by buoyant runs, skips, leaps, and tosses in a positive and supportive environment. Isadora herself said, "I don't teach dance, I teach joy!"

The class is included with the purchase of a ticket (children and students reserve for free). Email for more details on this opportunity to interact with the dancers. 

Tickets are non-refundable.

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ABOUT LONGHOUSE RESERVE

LongHouse Reserve is a 16-acre integrated environment in East Hampton, New York, created by artist, collector and world-renowned textile designer and weaver Jack Lenor Larsen (1927-2020), serving the community with vast open space, programs in art, nature, and wellness, and providing a sanctuary for Long Island and beyond. The sculpture garden, featuring more than 60 outdoor works, encourages exploration and contemplation for new and repeat visitors alike.  As of this year, the garden is fully open to the public for education and enjoyment, with a next chapter of activating Larsen’s home (a modernist structure based on the Shinto Shrine at Ise) and displaying the extensive craft and design collections. 

Jack Lenor Larsen designed and built LongHouse as a case study to exemplify a creative approach to contemporary life. He believed visitors experiencing art in living spaces have a unique learning experience.

When he acquired the property in 1975, Larsen began to lay out an entrance drive lined with majestic cryptomerias, established lawns and ornamental borders, and defined major spaces as settings for plant collections and sculpture. 

The long, low berms that divide the property recall the boundaries of farm fields that occupied the site until it was abandoned for agricultural use in the 19th century. Much of the deciduous canopy of second growth native trees has been preserved. The gardens present the designed landscape as an art form, demonstrate planting potentials in this climate with a wide variety of natural and cultivated species, and offer a diversity of sites for the sculpture installations. 

Finding inspiration in the 7th-century Shinto shrine at Ise, Japan, Larsen decided to build the house on the property in 1986. LongHouse was designed by Larsen in collaboration with architect Charles Forberg and built by Joe Tufariello. 

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.

From Artistic Director, Lori Belilove:

“NYPL promises to be an eye-opening event for all who thought of Isadora Duncan as a California floossie with no technique who just happened to blow the dance world - and the whole world - open to a new way of thinking and viewing and creating meaningful dance.  Isadora's Manuscript was written by Isadora for a student which includes preliminary technical exercizes. In my presentation I will explore the transmission of the legacy and demonstrate the development of Duncan as a choreographer.”

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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.

More information and registration here

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

More information here

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,

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.