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.
