Jeanne Bresciani & The Isadora Duncan International Institute Dancers
Presenting:
Masterpieces from the treasury of Isadora Duncan’s original dances and new works to Old Masters in
solo, duet, and small group performance
Performing the Art of
Isadora Duncan within:
The Palace Culture
The Institute Culture
The Museum Culture
The Castle Culture
“Jeanne Bresciani, having studied with direct descendants of the Duncan School, brings her own quality of grace and intensity to the reconstructions of these seminal works in a remarkable recapturing of the ecstacy and ferment that surround the very beginnings of modern dance …. The women bound across the stage in ever-changing configurations and end in a triumph stance of resolution with outspread arms flung open toward the audience.”
IDII PERFORMANCES, LECTURE DEMONSTRATIONS, AND WORKSHOPS HAVE BEEN LED AT THE FOLLOWING, TO NAME A FEW:
Lincoln Center – The British Museum – The Phillips Collection – Winnipeg Art Gallery – The Delphi Museum – The Pushkin Library – Smithsonian Institute – Wagner Society – Goethe House – The Dante Alighieri Society – Terni Opera House – Spoleto Festival – Rhineland Castles & Throne Room Tour – The Joyce Theatre – The New Parthenon, Tokyo – Massey Hall – National Theatre, Rio de Janeiro – Teatro Nuovo, Torino – National Dance Theatre, Budapest – Gioventu Musicale Italiana, Bergamo – Teatro Carcano, Milan – Vignale Danza – Kaatsbaan International Dance Center – Palazzo Pisani Moretta – Palazzo Contarini Polignac – Villa Pisani, Stra – Teatro Comunale di Vicenza – Seoul Olympic Festival – United Nations General Assembly – The Chopin Museum – The Museum of Romanticism, Poland & Archaeological Sites throughout Greece & Sicily
Performing to Great Acclaim
IDII European Producer,
Sophie Eustache
“All conspired to forge an unforgettable experience in works by Bresciani and Duncan at Kaatsbaan with Bresciani and Company delivering the mythic and the magical in Isis to Isadora.”
“Isadora, Adored…”
“Isadora Duncan enchanted audiences in the early 20th century. And thanks to artists like Jeanne Bresciani and her disciple Mary DiSanto-Rose, Duncan still enchants today. These two spirits are imbued with Duncan’s life-affirming, nature-inspired diversions of delight. As seen this past weekend at the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in “Isadora in the Time of Spring,” these dancers along with a cadre of young, capable adherents, transfixed. Not only did they carry off Duncan’s original works with purity, they were transformed. So too was the audience — astonished by Bresciani, in particular, who once again appeared as Duncan’s reincarnate.”
“Performing to a sold-out house, the Chopin works were breathtakingly performed by Bresciani and company, dancing with intense emotion that elegantly expressed a panoply of feelings, leaving the audience in a trance.”
Image by Lois Greenfield, Jordan Matter, Rachel Neville, Sophie Eustache, Maurizio Toresan, Daniele Nalesso, Massimo di Capua, Aurora Rose DeCrosta, Maggie Salamone, Amy Logan, Christopher Kim & Lief Norman.
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