Isadora Duncan International Institute

DATE CHANGE ~CPII | Isadora Duncan & The Preludes in Culmination: No End to Becoming
2019-10-04 10:00 - 2019-10-06 17:00 UTC | Tempio di Danza, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
Isadora Duncan & The Preludes in Culmination:
No End to Becoming
Chopin’s Prelude Op. 28 No. 24
& Moments from the Chopin Treasury
Certificate Program II in
Isadora Duncan Studies
Open to CPII Candidates & General Students
October 4th, 5th & 6th, 2019
beginning at 10am on the 18th, $600
& 1-Day Seasonal Enhancer
The Alchemy of Autumn, $125
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
Open to general students and those enrolled in the Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies II: The Dances of Isadora Duncan
To register, please return the two attached registration forms to the IDII via mail or email.
IDII Registration
IDII Waiver
IDII Directions
For more information and registration submission, please contact:
info@idii.org ~ www.idii.org ~ 845.687.4183
Isadora Duncan International Institute
20 Clovewood Rd.
High Falls, NY 12440
View the wide range of Lodging options near the Tempio di Danza (High Falls Vicinity). Room sharing options can be arranged by contacting the Isadora Duncan International Institute.

Performance | ID & the Muses Reunited at the National Arts Club
2019-11-20 18:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | National Arts Club
Isadora Duncan & the Muses Reunited
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019, 6:30 pm
with
Jeanne Bresciani &
The International Institute Dancers
&
Word Dance Theater with
Carlos Cesar Rodriguez, Pianist

The National Arts Club
New York, New York

Performance | Frederic Chopin & Isadora Duncan: In a Lasting Luminescence of Music & Dance
2019-11-22 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, Montreal
Frederic Chopin & Isadora Duncan:
In a Lasting Luminescence of Music & Dance
Friday, November 22nd, 2019, 7:00 pm
with
Jeanne Bresciani & Rosemary Cooper of the
Isadora Duncan International Institute,
Cynthia Word & Ingrid Zimmer of Word Dance Theater with
Carlos César Rodríguez, Pianist
& IDII Guest Artist, Kathleen Hiley
Sponsored by the
Consulate General of the Republic of Poland,
3501 Avenue du Musée, Montréal, Canada
with generous thanks to
IDII Ambassador Frances Fister-Stoga on behalf of Canada
For reservations, please call: (438) 395-2708

CPI | Isadora Duncan Dancing Inside the Symbols
2020-01-17 15:00 - 2020-01-20 17:00 (America/New_York) | Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM I IN ISADORA DUNCAN STUDIES: THE TRAINING
ISADORA DUNCAN DANCING INSIDE THE SYMBOLS:
afoot, afloat, alight
Friday, January 17th through Monday, January 20th, 2020
Movement seminars will take place within Skidmore College’s beautiful, sprung, Marley surfaced studios.
Beginning 7PM Friday and ending on Monday, Martin Luther King Day at 5PM.
A ‘Celebratory Performance’ will take place at the world-class Hyde Collection on Sunday, January 19th at 3pm.
Optional Trip
Preceding the opening seminar, visit the artistic treasures of the Hyde Collection on Friday, January 17th from 3 – 5PM led by Jenny Hutchinson,
Curator of Museum Education & Programming with Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D., Kress Fellow in the History of Art, Clark Art Institute.
Open to all Dancer and Non-Dancer General Students and
Candidates in The Certificate Program in Isadora Studies I: The Training
Includes 30 hours of CPI credit training.

For more information and registration, please contact:
info@idii.org | www.idii.org | 212.753.0846
For more information and registration, please contact:
info@idii.org ~ www.idii.org ~ 212.753.0846
Tuition: $500
Open to general students and those enrolled in the Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies I: The Training.
To register, please return the two attached registration forms to the IDII via mail or email.
IDII Registration
IDII Waiver

Travel | Carnevale di Venezia: Art at the Heart of Festival
2020-02-21 15:00 - 2020-02-26 11:00 (America/New_York) | Venezia, Venice, Italy
Venice Carnevale:
Art at the Heart of Festival
Luxury Cultural Tour, February 21 to 26, 2020
with optional Educational Prelude in the Fine and Lively Arts, February 19 to 21, 2020
Directed by
Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D.
Art at the Heart of Festival, is a uniquely guided cultural tour highlighting the season of Carnevale at its pitch of reverence and revelry through choice experiences at iconic and little-known enclaves. The days are comprised of exclusively tailored cultural talks and walks, inaugural events, luncheons and musical performances as well as private balls through the esteemed, members only Associazione Internazionale per il Carnevale di Venezia, noted for its rekindling of the ancient festival of Carnevale. Framing the entire journey will be the sumptuous five-night stay at the luxury, 5-star palazzo on the Grand Canal, Ca’ Sagredo, adorned with its Venetian-Gothic facade, Baroque adornments and naturally intoxicating aura of past and present.

“My own, My beautiful, My only Venice…this is Breath!”
Lord Byron

Luxury Tour Includes:
Luxury, 5-star accommodations for 5 nights ◆ Gala afternoon/evening balls & ball transportation by private water taxi ◆ Glassmaking & Mask Making Atelier Experiences ◆ Rare Venetian events ◆ Music & Dance Performances ◆ Daily artisanal breakfast
◆ Festive dinners ◆ Richly laden luncheons ◆ Dolcezza & Aperitivo moments

For registration and more information:
www.idiivenice.com
845-687-4183
info@idii.org
Details and Registration
Luxury Cultural Tour: $4,500
Optional Educational Prelude: $500
Registration Dates:
Registration with initial $1,500 deposit – October 28th, 2019
Remaining payment – December 16th, 2019
Based on double occupancy, single supplement at extra cost.
Airfare not included. Itinerary subject to change.​
also introducing
Serenissima Circle
hosting a new generation
for Carnevale di Venezia
www.idiivenice.com

Virtual Masterclass | The Quest for Isadora
2020-05-01 19:00 - 2020-05-03 19:00 (America/New_York) | Digital Class Format, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
The Quest for Isadora
For some of us Isadora’s exigency is within every breath and is part of our very life force. She is less ‘other’ and is more ‘essence’. Having forged – roughhewn and refined – a ‘school of life’, her presence filtered into everything, everywhere. From a rare capacity for universality through the courageous dissemination of her art and its technique, choreography and imaginative potential, she has called many to her, who have answered lifelong. Some, if not all, of the following strivings provided within her canon give initiatory force to:
• a sense of identity • a physical prowess • an embodiment of womanliness • a romantic enhancement • a challenge to the self • a whimsical caprice • a realm of inspiration • a path to freedom • an expressive outlet • a mission of peace • a conduit to service • an opening of the heart • an immersion in beauty • a deepening humanness • an amelioration of suffering • a call to action • a breakthrough • a healing balm • a conduit to empowerment • a flight of transcendence • an access to transformation • a system of belief • a commingling of souls • an historical gaze • a site of sanctuary
… and are made possible through Isadora’s art.
We shall experience them as tributaries of a stream of life flowing, branching and spreading from the well-formed arcs of Duncan’s consummate movement. There we shall not only discover more deeply Isadora but the heart of our own quest for the Dance.
All students of Life, Movement, and Art are welcome.
Virtual classes will be live via Zoom.
Jeanne Bresciani
Director of the Isadora Duncan International Institute/NYC
www.idii.org
Friday, May 9, 2020, 7-9pm
Saturday, May 10, 2020, 10am – 12pm
Sunday, May 11, 2020, 10am – 12pm
Entire Weekend (6 hours): $120
One 2-hour session: $50
All registrations must be received by 5 pm the day before class.
To register or for more information: cynthia@worddance.org

Digital Offering | CPII | Isadora Duncan in Reflective Gaze
2020-05-15 15:00 - 2020-05-17 13:00 (America/New_York) | Digital Class Format, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
Isadora Duncan in Reflective Gaze
Dances that pierce the darkness and unknown to the discovery of light within and without
Rescheduled and presented in digital format
A 9-hour CPII program featuring Duncan’s original, solo choreographies
May 15th 3-6pm EST, 16th 10-1pm EST and 17th 10-1pm EST , 2020
Chopin’s Harp Etude & Narcissus Waltz
Tuition – $300
Open to general students and those enrolled in the Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies II: The Dances of Isadora Duncan
This offering will be presented live and interactive via Zoom Meetings. You can participate with any desktop or smart phone device with a microphone and camera. Instructions will be emailed 24 hours before the start of the workshop.
To register, please return the two attached registration forms to the IDII via mail or email.
Register now!
IDII Waiver
For more information and registration submission, please contact:
info@idii.org ~ www.idii.org ~ 845.687.4183
Isadora Duncan International Institute
20 Clovewood Rd.
High Falls, NY 12440

POSTPONED | The European Certificate Program | Lisbon, Portugal
2020-05-17 18:00 - 2020-05-24 09:00 (America/New_York)
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Isadora Duncan & the Soul of Nature
Lisbon, Portugal
May 17th to 24th, 2020 with celebratory performance on May 23rd, 2020
Guided Travel Performance Tour and
European Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies
Directed by Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D. with Mary DiSanto-Rose, Ed.D.
Comprehensive Tour Fee: $1,800
European Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies Elected Only: $500*
*Includes studio seminar fees only. There are no reductions for partial attendance.
Full Flier Here
Join us in celebration of the 5th annual fully accredited European Certificate Program in the beautiful, coastal city of Lisbon where we shall enmesh in the immediacy and latent inspirations of the natural world adjacent the dramatic cliffs, mountains, verdant gardens and twinkling Atlantic waters.
Itinerary Highlights Include:

30 hours (five days) of Certificate Program accredited training in intense studio sessions in the technique of Isadora Duncan and creative explorations in her oeuvre
Rehearsal and performance at a museum UNESCO World Heritage Site on Saturday, May 23rd
Tasteful ‘atelier’ style lodging adjacent the studio center in the charming and bohemian neighborhood of Madragoa
Day trips to sites of artistic, cultural and natural import with evocative, workshop-style movement in situ

Comprehensive Tour Fee Includes: 7 nights lodging based on atelier-style double/triple occupancy, guidance throughout, all local group transportation for scheduled tour highlights, group lunch or dinner daily, group admission to all museums and scheduled itinerary excursions, rehearsal and performance(s) and the complete European Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies. The workshop week will culminate in festival performance at an exquisite, Lisbon museum UNESCO World Heritage Site. Based on double/triple occupancy, single supplement at extra cost. Airfare and transfers not included.
Itinerary and fees subject to change.
For more information and registration, please contact the IDII:
info@idii.org | www.idii.org | 212.753.0846
20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY 12440

The Mythic Body & The Spring Star Within
2020-06-05 10:00 - 2020-06-07 13:00 (America/New_York) | Digital Class Format, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
The Mythic Body & The Spring Star Within | from the Myth, Movement and Metaphor Series

Friday, June 5th 10am – 1pm EST
Saturday, June 6th 10am – 1pm EST
Sunday, June 7th 10am – 1pm EST
All held via Zoom
with Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D.
Explore and embody the elements within the Spring astrological signs of Aries, Taurus and Gemini through the technique and philosophy of Isadora Duncan. Movement explorations will be based on the mythic and evolutionary aspects of the Spring Quadrant within the astrological wheel.
As an included option, Full Registrants may submit their exact birth time, date and location for a 20 minute personal interpretation of these three signs as depicted within the birth chart. Upon registration, students will receive via email a link for scheduling and time slots will be available following workshop sessions on June 5th, 6th and 7th.
Learn more about the Myth, Movement and Metaphor Program here
Tuition – $225
Register now!

'The Delphic Preview' 2020 | Digital Offering
2020-06-19 09:00 - 2020-06-20 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, 3100 Whitehaven St NW, Washington, DC, DC, 20008, United States
The Delphic Preview
Festival of the Muses

The Delphic Preview: Festival of the Muses celebrates contemporary re-imaginings of Greek culture as they pertain to the ancient and eternal tradition of the Festival of the Delphic Games. The online event invites the global community to engage with ancient Greek art, music, dance, poetry, song, myth, sport and theater in modern iterations through live-streamed performances and discussions, and through the Garden of the Muses, a collection of videos, audio recordings, and scholarly articles.
The Festival is presented by Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in collaboration with the Isadora Duncan International Institute, the Ecumenical Delphic Union, and the Committee for the Reinstatement of the Delphic Games. Sponsors include MOISA: The International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage. The Festival is part of the larger initiative to further the ongoing modern reinstatements of the Festival of the Delphic Games to be held next in Delphi, June 2021.
All times in Eastern Daylight Time. Live stream available at chs.harvard.edu and on YouTube. Recordings will be available on YouTube.
‘Preview’ Aspects from the IDII include:
Friday, June 19th
9:00-10:30am — Opening Ceremony
Zoie Lafis (Center for Hellenic Studies), Gregory Nagy (Center for Hellenic Studies), Panos Kaltsis (Ecumenical Delphic Union), and Jeanne Bresciani, Founding Chair of the Committee for the Reinstatement of the Delphic Games (Isadora Duncan International Institute).
A welcome message from the organizing institutions of the Delphic Preview, featuring the presentation of two dances:
In Tanagra Procession is a collaborative interpretation staged by Jeanne Bresciani for the Delphic Preview 2020 after the original study by Isadora Duncan on form and character as housed within the Tanagra figurines. Dancers within this digital project span diverse artistic backgrounds and locales across the globe from Japan to Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Hawaii, Canada and more locally within the continental United States forging a universality digitally through these ancient and eternal statements on the telos of personhood.
Ode to Nike: Triumph of the Human Spirit (excerpt), performed by Rosemary Cooper, choreographed by Jeanne Bresciani after fragments left from Isadora Duncan via Maria-Theresa Duncan, the “last dancing Isadorable” and co-founder of the Isadora Duncan International Institute, to Chopin’s legendary Heroic Polonaise Op. 53 in A Flat Major. In this historic encounter, homage is paid to Athena Pronoia gifted in foreknowledge of trial to triumph for the mitigation of suffering and the enhancement of soul.
“Living laws within the living body.” Isadora Duncan
Click here for a full schedule of events and materials within the Garden of the Muses
All times in Eastern Daylight Time. Live stream available at chs.harvard.edu and on YouTube. Recordings will be available on YouTube.

Mythos in the Western Healing Tradition
2020-07-10 19:00 - 2020-07-12 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Mythos in the Western Healing Tradition
Enter the curative sanctums of Hygeia, Asclepius and Chiron for encounters with the life engendering force of embodied ritual, the regenerative sphere of dreams and the musical care of body and soul.

Friday, July 10th 7pm – 10pm
Saturday, July 11th 10am – 1pm
Sunday, July 12th 10am – 1pm

Course Fee: $225 with 20 minute private consultation included via Zoom with myself on matters concerning myth, movement and metaphor with implications to healing modalities.
Register Here

CPI | Isadora Primordia: On Origins
2020-08-04 19:00 - 2020-08-07 21:00 (America/New_York) | Tempio di Danza, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
Certificate Program I in Isadora Duncan Studies
Isadora Primordia: On Origins
Tuesday, August 4th to Friday, August 7th, 2020
Held live via Zoom with Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D.
Honoring ‘Isadora Explorer’ specific elements in Isadora technique, class studies, choreographies and improvisational methods will trace the primordial background to her ‘style transcendent’. As in a natural history of art, uncovering ‘living laws within the living body’, reservoirs of her knowledge and experience will be delved to discover sources, symbols and meanings empowering her lasting legacy. From material realms earthed and sublimed we shall return elemental inspiration and dynamic imperative to ourselves and to her dance in inspirational renderings grounded in principles ancient, eternal and universal. Upon registration, students will receive via email a link for scheduling private supervision and time slots will be available following workshop sessions.
The Certificate Program I is a professional training program leading to the Certificate in Isadora Duncan Studies and to the development of new Duncan programs internationally. The purpose of Program I is to train individuals intensively and professionally for the teaching and performance of the Duncan work. Three aspects of study and practice are emphasized: the aesthetic in the June week, the philosophical in the August week and the pedagogical in the February week. Each aspect is approached experientially through physical embodiment. The program is based on authentic Duncan technique and choreography, while developing a powerful access to students’ own creative resources for moving, teaching and the creation of new works.
Tuesday, August 4th 7pm-10pm
Wednesday, August 5th 10am-2pm
Thursday, August 6th 7pm-10pm
Friday, August 7th 10am-2pm with optional evening student work sharing 8-9pm EDT
Includes 15 credit hours of CPI training and a 20 minute private supervision session held via Zoom.
Tuition: $350 | Register Here
Open to general students and those enrolled in the Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies I: The Training.

The Mythic Body & The Summer Star Within | from the Myth, Movement and Metaphor Series
2020-09-11 10:00 - 2020-09-13 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
The Mythic Body & The Summer Star Within | from the Myth, Movement and Metaphor Series
Friday, September 11th 10am – 1pm EST
Saturday, September 12th 10am – 1pm EST
Sunday, September 13th 10am – 1pm EST
All held via Zoom
with Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D.
Explore and embody the elements within the Summer astrological signs of Cancer, Leo and Virgo through the technique and philosophy of Isadora Duncan. Movement explorations will be based on the mythic and evolutionary aspects of the Summer Quadrant within the astrological wheel.
As an included option, Full Registrants may submit their exact birth time, date and location for a 20 minute personal interpretation of these three signs as depicted within the birth chart. Upon registration, students will receive via email a link for scheduling and time slots will be available following workshop sessions on Sept. 11th, 12th and 13th.
Learn more about the Myth, Movement and Metaphor Program here
Tuition – $225
Register now!

Princeton Club Presents "Mythos in the Western Healing Tradition" Webinar
2020-09-23 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Mythos in the Western Healing Tradition
with Jeanne Bresciani
Wednesday, September 23
6:00PM Virtual Program
Free for Members
Hosted by Suzanne Roff
Protection, prevention, and healing are never so relevant as they are today. In the inspiring Zoom-cast, Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D., Artistic Director, Isadora Duncan International Institute, will share her knowledge on healing agencies and instincts available, yet overlooked. Her research stems from Native American, Medieval European and Ancient Greek legacies.
This visual presentation is a journey punctuated by three breathful, subtle movement interludes for brief, participatory interaction, seated or standing, so that a modicum of wisdom from these traditions will directly address body, mind and spirit as recognizable inherent forces.
From a cultural historian’s point of view, you will have the opportunity to learn and bear witness to the mythic, imaginal and natural backdrop of illness and the concomitant healing capacity deeply within the human ken. Going backward from the energies of the earth and sky inheritance on the North American continent; to the powerful ‘viriditas’(greening) underlying the music and rapture of Hildegard von Bingen; to Hippocrates’ clear, directed advice on food, habit and the regenerative sphere of dreams, we shall foster the trifold prescriptions of mind, body and spirit to heal.
This 90-minute seminar shall be concluded with a brief Q & A session.
Please email Rosemary, at rosemary@idii.org to register for this event
Jeanne Bresciani, M.A., Kress Fellow in Art History, M.A. (Williams College Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute), Fulbright Scholar in Dance (New York University), I.M.A. in Archetypal Psychology/Laban Studies, Ph.D. (New York University), is the main protégée of Maria Theresa Duncan, adopted daughter of Isadora Duncan and serves as Artistic Director for the Isadora Duncan International Institute (idii.org). Hailed by the press as “the divine in motion” for her lifelong dedication to the body of myth, Bresciani is former Faculty at NYU and Founding Chair of the Committee for the Reinstatement of the Delphic Games allied with Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies. She has presented at Lincoln Center, The British Museum, The Olympic Games and archaeological sites, palaces, stages and universities globally. Her influence includes the development of the first accredited Duncan training programs in the US, Asia and Europe and the revivification of great Western festivals including the Delphic Games of Greece; and in Italy within the ongoing development of Carnevale di Venezia and the Serenissima Circle, a philanthropic group of like-minded individuals devoted to the preservation of the cultural treasury found within the incomparable city. Jeanne is in frequent artistic and scholarly residency internationally and is recipient of The “Tenth Muse” Golden Award 2016 granted by the Universal Delphic Union and the Honorable Panos J. Kaltsis.

Digital CPII | Isadora & Chopin: In Earthly Pairing
2020-10-02 - 2020-10-04
Isadora & Chopin:
In Earthly Pairing
A 9-hour CPII program featuring Duncan’s original, solo choreographies
Friday, October 2nd 7-10pm EDT
Saturday, October 3rd 10-1pm EDT
Sunday, October 4th 3-6pm EDT
All held via Zoom
with Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D.
Chopin’s Twirling Mazurka & Gypsy Mazurka
Tuition – $300
Open to general students and those enrolled in the Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies II: The Dances of Isadora Duncan
Register Here

Myth, Movement & Metaphor | Isadora Duncan: Movement at the Threshold
2020-11-06 16:00 - 2020-11-08 13:00 (America/New_York)
Isadora Duncan:
Movement at the Threshold
In this next chapter of the Myth, Movement & Metaphor Program, we shall encounter the liminal spaces of physical, mental, spiritual and emotional change for the dancer and for humankind as witnessed at crucible places and times of impact, great and small. From the sacred to the profane, mythic to everyday, we shall arrive at, meet, cross and reflect upon our passage at the bridge places of life as turning points to newness and growth through deeper presence and authenticity in the dance. Akin to Isadora’s enactments through art, history, music and the mythos, we shall be guided to remastery at crossroads personal and universal confronting past, present and future at junctures quintessential. Ultimately, in terpsichorean mode, movement shall enliven us to the brink of awakening, expanding, refining and revamping like a tonic to stagnation – the clarity of the next footfall. Borrowing perspectives from Ovid’s natural and celestial haunts in Metamorphoses, Dante’s ancient and eternal realm in the Divine Comedy and Rilke’s burst of divine inspiration in the Sonnets to Orpheus, we shall chart – not what we have done before, not just what we want to do but what we must do in answer to the call of destiny.
“Voluminous, vast, swelling like sails in the wind, the movements of my dance carry me onward — onward and upward…” ~ Isadora Duncan
Friday, November 6th 4pm – 7pm EST
Saturday, November 7th 7pm – 10pm EST
Sunday, November 8th 10am – 1pm EST
REGISTER HERE | Tuition: $225 // Includes 9 credit hours of training and a 20 minute private supervision session held via Zoom.

Myth Program | Isis to Isadora in Creative Counterpart
2020-12-11 16:00 - 2020-12-13 13:00 (America/New_York) | Digital Class Format, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
Isis to Isadora in Creative Counterpart
Myth, Movement & Metaphor Program
Combining studies in movement and writing improvisation, choreography, archetypal psychology and mythology
Designed for students from diverse fields of study, the goal of this training is to reanimate the place of myth and the mythic imagination through exploration, experimentation and immersion in expressive arts, studies in movement and relevant writings on myth and symbol. With an interdisciplinary approach to their research, and careful guidance from program faculty, graduates will be well poised to contribute to present day conversations on myth.
Program Components Include:

Language and movement improvisation
Supervised research and written course work on literary and movement studies
Choreographic research
Parallels to contemporary studies in archetypal psychology

Friday, December 11th 4pm – 7pm EST
Saturday, *Optional* Myth Exploration 12 – 1pm EST
Saturday, December 12th 7pm – 10pm EST
Sunday, December 13th 10am – 1pm EST
Register Here
Tuition: $225 // Includes 9 credit hours of training and a 20 minute private supervision session held via Zoom.

In Winters' Good Graces Celebration | Winter Garden
2020-12-22 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Digital Class Format, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
Please join us to light the way through this Winter Solstice and to traverse the spiral of greening on Tuesday, December 22nd at 8pm EST in our annual, yet first digital, Winter Garden.

We invite you to craft your own spiral of greens, boughs, garlands, silks or imaginal manifestations and keep a candle or faux candle at the ready for lighting. Jeanne Bresciani shall guide us in thematic movement as we jointly prepare to spiral the labyrinthine path to the rebirth of the sun via music, dance and verse.
RSVP here to receive Zoom information for the event.

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020, 8pm EST
Online via Zoom
Free of Charge

January CPI | Isadora Duncan & The Elements of Performance
2021-01-15 - 2021-01-18 | Digital Class Format, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
Isadora Duncan & The Elements of Performance
Tracking the Mother of Modern Dance’s groundbreaking ‘style transcendent’ from studio to stage via Stanislavski’s homage to Isadora demonstratively through excerpts from her craft & choreography
Course open to Candidates and General Students of all levels
Tuition: $300
Certificate Program I Course open to Candidates and General Students of all levels.
The purpose of Program I is to train individuals intensively and professionally for the teaching and performance of the Duncan technique. Three aspects of study and practice are emphasized: the aesthetic, the philosophical and the pedagogical. Each aspect is approached experientially through physical embodiment. The program is based on authentic Duncan technique and choreography, while developing a powerful access to students’ own creative resources for moving, teaching and the creation of new works.
Schedule:
Friday, January 15th 3-6pm EST
Saturday, January 16th 3-7pm EST
Sunday, January 17th 3-7pm EST
Monday, January 18th 10-1pm EST & Open Performance 7-8pm EST
Held via Zoom with Jeanne Bresciani. Includes 15 credit hours of CPI training.

Register Here
By participating in this online course, I have read and fully agree to the Digital Class Terms & Conditions

Myth Program | Isadora Duncan & Art at the Heart of Festival
2021-02-19 - 2021-02-21 | Digital Class Format, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
Isadora Duncan & The Art at the Heart of Festival
Delving into the myth, lore and legacy of Venice Carnevale
Course open to Candidates and General Students of all levels
Friday, February 19th to Sunday, February 21st, 2021
Held via Zoom with Jeanne Bresciani. Includes 9 credit hours of CPI training.
Schedule:
Friday, February 19th, 4pm – 7pm EST
Saturday, *Optional* Deep Scope Mythopoetic Foray 12 – 1:30pm EST
Saturday, February 20th, 7pm – 10pm EST
Sunday, February 21st, 10am – 1pm EST
Tuition: $250
Held via Zoom with Jeanne Bresciani. Includes 9 credit hours of CPI training with 20 minute included private, Myth Program consultation.
Register Here
By participating in this online course, I have read and fully agree to the Digital Class Terms & Conditions

Free Performance | Portrait of a Lady: Shakespeare's Heroines in Dance
2021-03-07 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Portrait of a Lady: Shakespeare’s Heroines in Dance
Sunday, March 7th, 2021 | 7pm Eastern Standard via Zoom
Please join us for a free concert of solo performances via Zoom featuring Jeanne Bresciani & The Isadora Duncan International Institute Dancers moving out the manifold realms of the feminine experience from William Shakespeare’s iconic canon

Register to Attend

CPII | Isadora in Majestic Instancy
2021-03-26 16:00 - 2021-03-28 17:00 (America/New_York) | Digital Class Format, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
Isadora in Majestic Instancy
Tchaikovsky’s March Heroique
Featuring Duncan’s original choreography performed by Jeanne Bresciani and produced by IDII internationally upon great stages and within archaeological sites, now for the first time in reconstruction within this 9-hour CPII program
As reconstructed on Jeanne Bresciani from the complete American lineage directly from Maria-Theresa Duncan and indirectly from Anna and Irma Duncan directly via Hortense Kooluris and Julia Levien
All held via Zoom live from Tempio di danza
Open to general students and those enrolled in the Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies II: The Dances of Isadora Duncan.

Schedule
Friday, March 26th 4-7pm EDT
Saturday, March 27th 4-7pm EDT
Sunday, March 28th 4-7pm EDT
Tuition – $300
Register Here
By participating in this online course, I have read and fully agree to the Digital Class Terms & Conditions

Myth Program | Isadora Duncan & Flora's Feast
2021-04-23 16:00 - 2021-04-25 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Isadora Duncan & Flora’s Feast
Myth, Movement & Metaphor Program
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Combining studies in movement and writing improvisation, choreography, archetypal psychology and mythology
Designed for students from diverse fields of study, the goal of this training is to reanimate the place of myth and the mythic imagination through exploration, experimentation and immersion in expressive arts, studies in movement and relevant writings on myth and symbol. With an interdisciplinary approach to their research, and careful guidance from program faculty, graduates will be well poised to contribute to present day conversations on myth.
Program Components Include:

Language and movement improvisation
Supervised research and written course work on literary and movement studies
Choreographic research
Parallels to contemporary studies in archetypal psychology

Friday, April 23rd 4pm – 7pm EST
Saturday, *Optional* Myth Exploration 12 – 1pm EDT
Saturday, April 24th 4pm – 7pm EST
Sunday, April 25th 4pm – 7pm EST
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Tuition: $225 // Includes 9 credit hours of training
20 minute private supervision session held via Zoom available at additional fee

CPI | Isadora Duncan at Sites of the Soul
2021-05-20 19:00 - 2021-05-23 19:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Isadora Duncan at Sites of the Soul
Certificate Program I Course open to Candidates and General Students of all levels.
Held via Zoom with Jeanne Bresciani. Includes 15 credit hours of CPI training.
The purpose of Program I is to train individuals intensively and professionally for the teaching and performance of the Duncan technique. Three aspects of study and practice are emphasized: the aesthetic, the philosophical and the pedagogical. Each aspect is approached experientially through physical embodiment. The program is based on authentic Duncan technique and choreography, while developing a powerful access to students’ own creative resources for moving, teaching and the creation of new works.
Schedule:
Thursday, May 20th 7-10pm EDT
Friday, May 21st 4-7pm EDT
Saturday, May 22nd 10-1pm EDT
Sunday, May 23rd 10-1pm EDT & Open Performance 7-8pm EDT

Tuition: $300
Private conferences available at additional fee.
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By participating in this online course, I have read and fully agree to the Digital Class Terms & Conditions

CPI | Isadora Duncan & A Sense of the Beautiful
2021-08-19 16:00 - 2021-08-22 21:00 (America/New_York) | Digital Class Format, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
Isadora Duncan & A Sense of the Beautiful
Certificate Program I Course open to Candidates and General Students of all levels.
Held via Zoom with Jeanne Bresciani. Includes 15 credit hours of CPI training.
The purpose of Program I is to train individuals intensively and professionally for the teaching and performance of the Duncan technique. Three aspects of study and practice are emphasized: the aesthetic, the philosophical and the pedagogical. Each aspect is approached experientially through physical embodiment. The program is based on authentic Duncan technique and choreography, while developing a powerful access to students’ own creative resources for moving, teaching and the creation of new works.

About the Course:
“… create Beauty and Inspiration for a new life “ ID
The legacy of Isadora Duncan as revelatory of beauty is a vital touchstone of her tradition. Arguably, she alone traversed the great abyss toward Modernism embodied and with beauty as a cogent and inherent value. Perhaps, among all the powers of her vast artistry, it was her astonishing call for the chain of being to be linked to the undying value of beauty that had first been defined by the Greeks for our understanding. For beauty is bequeathed to us from Duncan as mandate for every living person and as an eternal principle proffered as prayer and possibility to the modern world. In Duncan’s six-fold relationship to beauty comprised of: apperception, receptivity, possession, expression, communion and bestowal – a complete round of experience is returned to the beautiful. As an education for life through the dance, Duncan’s practice, philosophy and pedagogy continues to become an education for beauty’s sake in all its ideal and variegated forms within the self, others and in the soul of the world itself.
Schedule:
Thursday, August 19 – 4-7pm EDT
Friday, August 20th – 4-7pm EDT
Saturday, August 21st – 7-10pm EDT
Sunday, August 22nd – 10am-12pm EDT & 6-8pm EDT with Open Performance at 8pm
Tuition: $300
Private conferences available at additional fee.
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By participating in this online course, I have read and fully agree to the Digital Class Terms & Conditions

CPII | Chopiniana: Dances from the Duncan Treasury Pt. 1
2021-09-10 16:00 - 2021-09-12 19:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Chopiniana: Dances from Duncan Treasury
Part I
Trailblazing her way across the theaters and culture spaces of Europe, Duncan, with her groundbreaking works to the Polish genius, would ignite in artists and benefactors alike a radical new conception of dance and theater as a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art.
Described as a “romantic reverie,” Chopiniana, Op. 46, orchestrated by Alexander Galzunov and choreographed by Michael Fokine with Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, is a fantasy setting of some of Chopin’s famous waltzes, polonaises, nocturnes and mazurkas new and yet bearing the hidden imprint of Duncan’s pivotal artist renderings. We shall explore these outcroppings of mood and form to the “poet of the piano” and track selected Duncan choreographies in their own right and within the colored variations of Chopiniana.
About the the Chopin IDII Legacy:
The Isadora Duncan International Institute has held choreographic stores of masterworks to the great composers but none more foundational to Duncan’s art than those of Chopin, from the beginning of her career in 1901 to her last appearances in 1927. Isadora became known worldwide for dancing to all of Chopin’s repertoire with the most noted Chopin exponents of her time, in Chopin Evenings, full concerts of dances, set solely to the Polish master’s pianistic works. Unmatched in its breadth and historical precedence, the rare canon, held exclusively by the IDII, represents the entire known holdings of Isadora’s synergistic works to Chopin’s numerous preludes, nocturnes, etudes, waltzes, and mazurkas as passed down in direct lineage by Maria-Theresa, founder of the IDII, Inc., Isadora Duncan’s adopted daughter, the “last dancing Isadorable.”
All held via Zoom live from Tempio di danza
Open to general students and those enrolled in the Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies II: The Dances of Isadora Duncan.
Schedule
Friday, September 10th 3-7pm EDT
Saturday, September 11th 11-3pm EDT
Sunday, Sunday 12th 3-7pm EDT
Tuition – $300
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By participating in this online course, I have read and fully agree to the Digital Class Terms & Conditions

Myth Program | Mnemosyne: Memory at the Mythic Matrix
2021-10-29 15:00 - 2021-10-31 20:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Myth, Movement & Metaphor Program
Open to Program Candidates and general movers of all levels.
Combining studies in movement and writing improvisation, choreography, archetypal psychology and mythology
Designed for students from diverse fields of study, the goal of this training is to reanimate the place of myth and the mythic imagination through exploration, experimentation and immersion in expressive arts, studies in movement and relevant writings on myth and symbol. With an interdisciplinary approach to their research, and careful guidance from program faculty, graduates will be well poised to contribute to present day conversations on myth.
Program Components Include:

Language and movement improvisation
Supervised research and written course work on literary and movement studies
Choreographic research
Parallels to contemporary studies in archetypal psychology

Schedule
Friday, October 29th 3pm – 7pm EDT
Saturday, October 30th 10am – 2pm EDT
Sunday, October 31st 10am – 12pm & 6:30pm – 8:30pm EDT
Performance and Graduation Ceremony, Sunday, October 31st 7:30pm to 8:30pm EDT
Tuition: $300 // Includes 12 credit hours of training
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30 minute private supervision session held via Zoom available at additional fee

Free Zoom Performance | Isadora & Chopin: Etudes in the Mythic Romantic
2021-11-07 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Isadora & Chopin: Etudes in the Mythic Romantic
Sunday, November 7th, 2021 – 6pm EST
Join us for an evening of new work on the transformative power of art to Chopin’s Etudes from the Isadora Duncan International Institute Dancers and Guest Artist, Kathleen Hiley

This is a free event with donation options. Prior registration is required.
Please note that registration for this event will close at 10am on Sunday, November 7th.

Please adjust your clocks in America as Daylight savings will no longer be in affect!

Attend!

CPII | Chopiniana: Dances from the Duncan Treasury Pt. II
2021-12-10 16:00 - 2021-12-12 19:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Chopiniana: Dances from Duncan Treasury
Part II
Trailblazing her way across the theaters and culture spaces of Europe, Duncan, with her groundbreaking works to the Polish genius, would ignite in artists and benefactors alike a radical new conception of dance and theater as a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art.
Described as a “romantic reverie,” Chopiniana, Op. 46, orchestrated by Alexander Galzunov and choreographed by Michael Fokine with Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, is a fantasy setting of some of Chopin’s famous waltzes, polonaises, nocturnes and mazurkas new and yet bearing the hidden imprint of Duncan’s pivotal artist renderings. We shall explore these outcroppings of mood and form to the “poet of the piano” and track selected Duncan choreographies in their own right and within the colored variations of Chopiniana.
About the the Chopin IDII Legacy:
The Isadora Duncan International Institute has held choreographic stores of masterworks to the great composers but none more foundational to Duncan’s art than those of Chopin, from the beginning of her career in 1901 to her last appearances in 1927. Isadora became known worldwide for dancing to all of Chopin’s repertoire with the most noted Chopin exponents of her time, in Chopin Evenings, full concerts of dances, set solely to the Polish master’s pianistic works. Unmatched in its breadth and historical precedence, the rare canon, held exclusively by the IDII, represents the entire known holdings of Isadora’s synergistic works to Chopin’s numerous preludes, nocturnes, etudes, waltzes, and mazurkas as passed down in direct lineage by Maria-Theresa, founder of the IDII, Inc., Isadora Duncan’s adopted daughter, the “last dancing Isadorable.”
All held via Zoom live from Tempio di danza
Open to general students and those enrolled in the Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies II: The Dances of Isadora Duncan.
Schedule
Friday, December 10th 4-7pm EST
Saturday, December 11th 12-3pm EST
Sunday, December 12th 4-7pm EST
Tuition – $300

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By participating in this online course, I have read and fully agree to the Digital Class Terms & Conditions

In-Person | Carnevale di Venezia: Art at the Heart of Festival
2022-02-25 15:00 - 2022-03-02 17:00 (America/New_York) | Venezia, Venice, Italy
Luxury Tour
February 25th to March 2nd, 2022

Prelude in the Fine & Lively Arts
February 23rd to 25th, 2022

Learn more and register here!

Join us for a uniquely guided cultural tour highlighting the season of Carnevale at its pitch of reverence and revelry through choice experiences at iconic and little-known enclaves. The days are comprised of exclusively tailored cultural talks and walks, inaugural events, luncheons and musical performances as well as private balls through the esteemed, members only Associazione Internazionale per il Carnevale di Venezia, noted for its rekindling of the ancient festival of Carnevale. Framing the entire journey will be the sumptuous 5 -night stay at the luxury, 5-star palazzo on the Grand Canal, Ca’ Sagredo, adorned with its Venetian-Gothic facade, Baroque adornments and naturally intoxicating aura of past and present.
Led by Jeanne Bresciani, PhD
Kress Fellow in the History of Art & Museumship
