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

Zoom CPI | Isadora Duncan & The Art of Ecstasy: In Creation of Festival
2022-03-18 17:00 - 2022-03-20 20:00 | Zoom
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Schedule
Friday, March 18th | 5pm-9pm EST
Saturday, March 19th | 10am-12pm & 5pm-8pm EST
Sunday, March 20th | 10am-1pm & 6pm-8pm EST with Open Performance at 7pm EST
Course Hours: 15 including one hour of assigned reading
Private conferences available at additional fee.
Certificate Program I Course open to Candidates and General Students of all levels.
By participating in this online course, I have read and fully agree to the Digital Class Terms & Conditions

About This Certificate Program I
In Isadora Duncan & The Art of Ecstasy: In Creation of Festival, this inner conjoined journey takes off via Zoom from the intimacy and enclosure of our own homes in preparation as if in rite of purification to great purpose. We recognize Isadora, who attendant to the great tutelary spirits of the ancients, became a vital force behind the first reinstatement of the Delphic Games in the early 20th century. We travel speaking Isadora’s language of guardianship, traversing her footsteps, reaffirming her Delphic imprint and fortifying the medium of festival. Our movements hone from mythos as if carved from stones of ancestors that each might be part of the art of ecstasy, at once indwelling and revelatory.
We identify motifs most Greek in her oeuvre and look to the images that informed her holistic perspective giving us the profound congruence that is the art of Isadora from essence to execution. Excavating Duncan’s technique from ancient models, we set the stage in preparation for solo and group performances on the varying stages of Delphi. We constellate the original Duncan dances as infused by the Greek fire of life in solo and group forms to be performed at the differing stages of Delphi. We amass the many contemporary IDII dances to the music of Greek and modern composers making one and whole an event tracing from primordial waters of creation forward. Coursing through ages, like muses through time, our destination remains here, now, mythic – and beyond unto the full blown Games of a Delphic future.

Zoom CPII | Isadora Duncan Into the Elemental Pt. 1
2022-04-22 16:00 - 2022-04-24 16:00 | Zoom
Isadora Duncan Into the Elemental Pt. 1
Chopin’s Preludes Op. 28, No.’s 1, 2 & 3
Open to general students and those enrolled in the Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies II: The Dances of Isadora Duncan.
Schedule
Friday, April 22nd – 4pm – 7pm EDT
Saturday, April 23rd – 12pm – 3pm EDT
Sunday, April 24th – 12pm – 3pm EDT
All held via Zoom live from Tempio di danza
By participating in this online course, I have read and fully agree to the Digital Class Terms & Conditions
Register Here

In-Person | The Festival for the Reinstatement of the Delphic Games 2022
2022-05-22 08:00 - 2022-05-28 17:00 | Delphi, Greece
May 22nd to 28th, 2022
Delphi, Greece

Five days of world-class lectures, intensive workshops, leadership initiatives, round-table discussions and performances, held on the mythical, archaeological grounds of Mount Parnassus, led by renowned scholars, artists and sports specialists on the convergence of the manifold arts, inspired by the venerable tradition of The Delphic Games in the sacred landscape of Delphi

Learn more here!

Isadora Duncan & The Dancer of the Future: Heir to Nietzsche, Jung & Hillman
2022-08-19 17:00 - 2022-08-21 20:00 | Tempio di Danza, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440

CPII | Isadora Duncan in the Romance of the Waltz
2022-09-16 17:00 - 2022-09-18 20:00 | Zoom
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Live to On-Demand! Join Us Live on Zoom
In Strauss’ ‘Blue Danube’ Among Other Works

Schedule:

Friday, September 16th | 4pm – 7pm EST
Saturday, September 17th | 12pm – 3pm EST
Sunday, September 18th | 12pm – 3pm EST

Certificate Program II: The Dances of Isadora DuncanFor graduates of The Certificate Program I or for advanced students, a second sequence of study has been developed as a professional training program leading to The Advanced Diploma in Isadora Duncan Performance and Choreography. The program consists of intensive short courses of concentrated study and practice toward the definition and refinement of original Duncan choreographies for performance and reconstruction:

Each session will focus on a particular thematic or musical body of master works.

Sources and content of the works will be treated.

Technical components of the dances will be practiced and mastered.

The choreographic constructs of the pieces will be analyzed and executed.

Performance aspects of the masterpieces of Duncan choreography will be brought forth and coalesced toward the goal of bringing to bear finished works of art.

Myth Program | Unveiling Mystery: The Dance of the Archetypes
2022-11-04 17:00 - 2022-11-06 21:30
Myth, Movement & Metaphor Program:

Unveiling Mystery: The Dance of the Archetypes

Schedule:

Friday, November 4th | 3pm – 7pm EST

Saturday, November 5th | 10am – 2pm EDT

Sunday, November 6th | 10am – 12pm & 6:30pm – 8:30pm EDT Performance and Graduation Ceremony, Sunday, October 31st 7:30pm to 8:30pm EDT

About this Program:Combining studies in movement and writing improvisation, choreography, archetypal psychology and mythologyDesigned 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

PERFORMANCE | Isadora Duncan & Auguste Rodin: The Natural, The Passional & The Victorious
2022-11-30 17:00 - 19:00
Isadora Duncan & Auguste Rodin: The Natural, The Passional & The Victorious
Jeanne Bresciani & The Isadora Duncan International Institute Dancers
with Guest Artist Jacqueline Fernandez, Isadora Duncan México

Museo Soumaya
Mexico City, Mexico

Jeanne Bresciani

Jacqueline Fernández

Rosemary Cooper
Images by Ernesto Reynoso Velazquez

Winter Garden Open Festival Class
2022-12-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Winter Garden Open Festival Class
Please join us to light the way through this Winter Solstice and to traverse the spiral of greening, Tuesday, December 20th at 7pm EST in our annual, yet third 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.
Offered Gratis
Register Here!

In-Person and Online CPI | Isadora Duncan & The Essence of Art
2023-01-12 11:00 - 2023-01-15 17:00 | Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States
Hybrid Zoom (In-Person and Online) Certificate Program I in Isadora Duncan Studies

Thursday, January 12th through Sunday, January 15th

Movement seminars will take place within Skidmore College’s beautiful, sprung, Marley surfaced studios.

In-Person Offering:

Beginning 3PM Thursday and ending on Sunday at 5PM.

A ‘Celebratory Performance’ will take place at the world-class Hyde Collection on Sunday, January 15th at 3pm.

Optional Trip

Preceding the opening seminar, visit the artistic treasures of the Hyde Collection on Thursday, January 12th from 11 – 1PM 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 28 hours of CPI credit training with 2 hours of required reading.

Virtual Offering:

15 CPI Credit Hour Hybrid Zoom Offering of Select Course Sessions

Following course completion, students will have video availability for 90 days.

Register Here!

Carnevale di Venezia 2023
2023-02-17 15:00 - 2023-02-22 15:00 | Venezia, Venice, Italy
Carnevale di Venezia 2023

Join us for a uniquely guided 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

Luxury Tour Includes:

◆ Luxury, 5-star accommodations for 5 nights ◆ Invitation only, gala afternoon and evening balls
◆ Select transportation by private water taxi ◆ Traditional craft atelier experiences with premiere artisans of Venice
◆ Exclusive music & dance performances and rare events within private palazzi ◆ Daily artisanal breakfast
◆ Festive dinners ◆ Richly laden luncheons ◆ Dolce & Aperitivo moments
◆ Guided cultural excursions orchestrated in the company of Venetian taste-makers

Details and Registration
Luxury Cultural Tour: $4,500
Registration Dates:
Initial $1,500 deposit by December 25th with full payment by January 15th, 2023.
Based on double occupancy, single supplement at extra cost.
Airfare not included. Itinerary subject to change.​

RSVP Here

Eros: The Blind, The Wounded & The Winged
2023-03-24 16:00 - 2023-03-26 15:00 | Zoom
Eros: The Blind, The Wounded & The Winged

From the Myth, Movement & Metaphor Program | Live via Zoom with Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D.

Schedule:

Friday, March 24th – 4pm – 7:30pm Eastern

Saturday, March 25th – 12pm – 3:30pm Eastern

Sunday, March 26th – 12pm – 3:30pm Eastern

Open to Program Candidates and general movers of all levels.

About this Program:

Combining studies in movement and writing improvisation, choreography, archetypal psychology and mythologyDesigned 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

Register Here!

Myth, Movement & Music Chair Class Series
2023-04-27 17:00 - 17:45 | Zoom
Myth, Movement & Music: A Chair Class for Joy & Aliveness
All levels of movers can look forward to:
– Guided Isadora Duncan-inspired subtle chair movement to ground and strengthen
– Breathwork to calm the nervous system and lift the spirit
– Bioenergetic motifs to reinvigorate body and soul
All to selected classical music and art incorporating themes ranging from myth to Jungian studies, art history to travel, health to healing and more

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Hybrid CPII | Isadora Duncan's Scenes from Childhood: Schumann's Kinderszenen
2023-04-28 16:00 - 2023-04-30 15:00 | Tempio di Danza, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
Isadora Duncan’s Scenes from Childhood
Schumann’s Kinderszenen

Live participation will take place at IDII Motherhouse, Tempio di Danza, in High Falls, New York 12440

Live Zoom Attendance – $300 | 9 Course Hours

In-Person Attendance – $500 | 15 Credit Hours

Private conferences available at additional fee.Certificate Program II Course open to Candidates and General Students of all levels.

Following live course completion, full registration includes videos of course sessions for On-Demand viewing for 90 days.

Schedule:

Friday, April 28th | 4pm – 7pm Eastern (Hybrid)

Saturday, April 29th | 10am – 1pm Eastern (In-Person Only)
Saturday, April 29th | 4pm – 7pm Eastern (Hybrid)

Sunday, April 30th | 9am – 12pm Eastern (In-Person Only)
Sunday, April 30th | 2pm – 5pm Eastern (Hybrid)

Open to Program Candidates and general movers of all levels.
***Course will be available in recorded format following its conclusion.***

Register Here!

Certificate Program II: The Dances of Isadora Duncan

For graduates of The Certificate Program I or for advanced students, a second sequence of study has been developed as a professional training program leading to The Advanced Diploma in Isadora Duncan Performance and Choreography. The program consists of intensive short courses of concentrated study and practice toward the definition and refinement of original Duncan choreographies for performance and reconstruction:

Each session will focus on a particular thematic or musical body of master works.

Sources and content of the works will be treated.

Technical components of the dances will be practiced and mastered.

The choreographic constructs of the pieces will be analyzed and executed.

Performance aspects of the masterpieces of Duncan choreography will be brought forth and coalesced toward the goal of bringing to bear finished works of art.

Myth, Movement & Music: A Chair Class for Joy & Aliveness
2023-05-04 17:00 - 17:45, 2023-05-11 17:00 - 17:45 | Zoom

In-Person & Zoom June Week | The Muses Reunited: To a World in Harmony
2023-06-22 16:00 - 2023-06-25 22:00 | Tempio di Danza, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
The Muses Reunited: To a World in Harmony
Thursday, June 22nd through Sunday, June 25th, 2023
Movement seminars will take place at Tempio di Danza’s beautiful air-conditioned, sprung, wooden-surfaced studio. Daylight and evening seminars will also be held poolside, in the water, and at outdoor locations.
Beginning 4PM Thursday, ending 10PM Sunday in Festive Performance
Open to all General Students and Candidates in
The Certificate Program in Isadora Studies I: The Training
Schedule:
Thursday, June 22 | 4:00pm – 7:00pm (Hybrid)

Friday, June 23 | 10:00 am – 1:00pm (Hybrid)

4:00pm – 7:00pm (In-Person Only)

Saturday, June 24th | 10:00 am – 1:00pm (Hybrid)

4:00pm – 6:00pm (In-Person Only)

8:00pm – 10:00pm (In-Person Only)

Sunday, June 25th | 9:00am – 12:00pm (Hybrid)

3:00pm – 6:00pm (In-Person Only)

8:00pm – 10:00pm (In-Person Only)

For more information, please contact:
info@idii.org ~ 212.753.0846
Tuition: $500 In-Person / $300 Zoom Attendance
Open to general students and those enrolled in the Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies I: The Training.
Directions to the IDII can be found here.
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.

Register Here

In-Person & Zoom August Week | Isadora Duncan & The Forces of Creativity
2023-08-10 16:00 - 2023-08-13 18:00 | Tempio di Danza, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
Isadora Duncan & The Forces of Creativity

Thursday, August 10th through Sunday, August 13th, 2023

In-Person Summer Study: Four-Day Intensive in the Technique and Choreography of Isadora Duncan with Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D. held live from Tempio di Danza

Zoom Option Available

Movement seminars will take place at Tempio di Danza’s beautiful air-conditioned, sprung, wooden-surfaced studio. Daylight and evening seminars will also be held poolside, in the water, and at outdoor locations.

Beginning 4PM Thursday, ending 6PM on Sunday Open to all General Students and Candidates in The Certificate Program in Isadora Studies I: The Training

Schedule:

Thursday, August 10th | 4:00pm – 7:00pm (Hybrid)

Friday, August 11th | 10:00 am – 1:00pm (Hybrid)

4:00pm – 7:00pm (In-Person Only)

Saturday, August 12th | 10:00 am – 1:00pm (Hybrid)

4:00pm – 6:00pm (In-Person Only)

8:00pm – 10:00pm (In-Person Only)

Sunday, August 13th | 9:00am – 12:00pm (Hybrid)

3:00pm – 6:00pm (In-Person Only)

For more information, please contact:
info@idii.org ~ 212.753.0846
Tuition: $500 In-Person / $300 Zoom Attendance

Open to general students and those enrolled in the Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies I: The Training.
Directions to the IDII can be found here.
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.

Register Here!

Eros: The Blind, The Wounded & The Winged | From the Myth, Movement & Metaphor Program™
2023-09-29 10:00 - 2023-10-01 17:00 | Zoom
Eros: The Blind, The Wounded & The Winged

Friday, September 29th to Sunday, October 1st, 2023

In-Person and Live Via Zoom with Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D.
Open to Movers of All Levels

From the Myth, Movement & Metaphor Program™

Re-Beginnings to the Eros Seminars:
The Eros Arc of Creativity
Nestled in the myth of Eros is the irreducible power that appears insatiate to this god of love, desire and sexuality. He makes his demands known to us visibly and invisibly, gently and harshly, freely and bound. He exacts his measure whether his urgency is heeded or ignored for we are ordained to live in his force field or live not at all. Invited or spurned he is summoned and impelled to act his ardor in directions as many as his arrows might traverse in multitudinous array. We meet him at differing ranges to these shafts: in the utter proximity of archetypal reaches as birthright, in those near that house pregnant symbols and those at far reaches of the mystic and mythopoetic.
There we shall embrace him in the dance of life and recognize him in his full creative and destructive sway. In step with him, we shall come to recognize the Divine Consort often tragically lost, concealed or driven away for fear of his counterparts, human and inhuman. By his side, much is promised and delivered. There we shall seek a baptism of fire and the spirit, with moistening of the soul, grafting of body back to earth and an air in contagion to both clear and enchant the mind. Let us do so to grasp the introverted, extroverted and indelibly ‘centro-verted’ heart of the matter.
The Eros in us is born from Love’s source itself, the storied and imaginative place of life experience. The notion into motion of a triune Eros as Blind, Wounded and Winged, conceived as a creative opus spanning the many arts, demands focus and passionate intent. May we find the sight, the kindling and the fearlessness to see, feel and free ourselves in recognition of Love’s mystery as the magnum opus of our lives that it is.
The story of our life dictates the course of how we give and receive love. We shall actively and contemplatively move body, heart, mind, spirit and soul to the next ground of being – alive in Love. Let us bring Venus and Mars down to earth passionately into Eros.
~ From Jeanne Bresciani, on the course

Schedule:
Friday, September 29th

10:00am – 1:00pm (In-Person Only) | 4:00pm – 7:00pm Eastern (Hybrid)

Saturday, September 30th

10:00am – 1:00pm (In-Person Only) | 3:00pm – 6:00pm Eastern (Hybrid) | 8:00pm – 10:00pm Eastern (In-Person Only)

Sunday, October 1st

9:00am – 12:00pm (Hybrid) | 3:00pm – 6:00pm Eastern (In-Person Only)

About the Myth, Movement & Metaphor Program:

A program combining studies in movement 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

Open to General Students as well as candidates in the Myth, Movement & Metaphor Program. No prior experience in movement is required.

Register Here

CPII Workshop | Isadora Lyrica: To Gluck, Chopin & Tchaikovsky
2023-11-10 10:00 - 2023-11-12 17:00 | Tempio di Danza, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
Isadora Lyrica: To Gluck, Chopin & Tchaikovsky

November 10th to 12th, 2023

Live Via Zoom with Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D. from Tempio di danza.

Live Zoom Attendance – $300

Private conferences available at additional fee. Certificate Program II Course open to Candidates and General Students of all levels. Following live course completion, full registration includes videos of course sessions for On-Demand viewing for 90 days.

Schedule:

Friday, November 10th 4pm – 7pm Eastern (Hybrid)

Saturday, November 11th | 4pm – 7pm Eastern (Hybrid)

Sunday, November 12th | 3pm – 6pm Eastern (Hybrid)

Open to Program Candidates and general movers of all levels.

***Course will be available in recorded format of hybrid sessions following its conclusion.***

Register Here!

Certificate Program II: The Dances of Isadora Duncan:

For graduates of The Certificate Program I or for advanced students, a second sequence of study has been developed as a professional training program leading to The Advanced Diploma in Isadora Duncan Performance and Choreography. The program consists of intensive short courses of concentrated study and practice toward the definition and refinement of original Duncan choreographies for performance and reconstruction:

Each session will focus on a particular thematic or musical body of master works.

Sources and content of the works will be treated.

Technical components of the dances will be practiced and mastered.

The choreographic constructs of the pieces will be analyzed and executed.

Performance aspects of the masterpieces of Duncan choreography will be brought forth and coalesced toward the goal of bringing to bear finished works of art.

Washington, D.C. | Isadora & Maria-Theresa: In Panoply of Womankind
2023-11-17 19:00 - 2023-11-18 16:00 | Dumbarton Church, 3133 Dumbarton St. NW, Washington, D.C.
Isadora & Maria-Theresa in Panoply of Womankind
Led by Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D. with Word Dance Theater
Friday, November 17th – Saturday, November 18th, 2023 Dumbarton United Methodist Church, Washington, D.C.

Day I
Friday, November 17th | 7pm – 9pm Eastern
Cost: $50 (In-Person) / $40 (Zoom)

Day II
Saturday, November 18th | 10am – 4pm Eastern
Cost: $150 (In-Person) / $120 (Zoom)

In-Person Attendance Shall Take Place At: 3133 Dumbarton St NW, Washington, DC 20007
Register Here

About the Course:
Isadora is revered as lodestar for feminism and likewise is esteemed for ‘intense womanliness’. Goddess-like stature aside, one wonders of these emblematic energies and greater contradictions co-existing within divinely human Isadora.
Without a coup de foudre at a tender age upon meeting ‘the last dancing Isadorable’, Maria-Theresa Duncan, I would have doubted an invincible female self-possession possible to hold the tension of such opposites. Isadora’s adopted daughter, was a red-haired, septuagenarian font of beauty and wisdom, freedom and strength with no expiration date. ‘The last dancing Isadorable’ disarmingly revoked all prohibitions versus the existence of a multi-dimensional, complete woman. In powerful artistry via immersive techniques and teachings – a movement of the soul, a religion of love and a treatise on living were unveiled. The collage of inspirations, insights, instincts and intuitions revealed the unsayable but never the undanceable, to become the unassailable force field of androgyny.
The genius expression of personal and collective feeling, thought and action has been passed down from Isadora, to Maria-Theresa and on to each of us. No one teaches us to be a woman, but we are chiseled by the movement and stillness, the music and silence, the role, the costume, the mirror, the magic to be freed into the full embrace of life. May we meet to dance and discern, never relinquishing our personal authority. Let us heftily reconcile the feminine to the masculine, shaping our own story, exploring it, dissecting it while keeping it alive, mystery intact.
With gratitude to Cynthia Word, Founding Director of Word Dance Theater, for this call to meet and experience in movement the magnificent array of woman. Presenting on this subject in the company of WDT in its wide-reaching breadth is of particular meaning as Cynthia is one of only two recipients of the Isadora Duncan International Institute Maria-Theresa Duncan Award, presented at the Lansburgh Shakespeare Theater, D.C. in 2010.
Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D.

A Winter Garden Festival of Light 🌲 Isadora Festival Class
2023-12-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Please join us live via Zoom with Jeanne Bresciani to light the way through this Winter Festive Season and to traverse the spiral of greening in our annual 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.
Offered Freely | Register to Attend

Zoom CPI | Isadora from Inner Reaches to Outer Momentum: Dancing the Jungian Typologies Through the Labyrinth
2024-01-11 16:00 - 2024-01-14 18:00 | Tempio di Danza, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
Isadora from Inner Reaches to Outer Momentum: Dancing the Jungian Typologies Through the Labyrinth
Thursday, January 11th to Sunday, January 14th, 2024

Upon a sacred way in dancing steps our innate prima materia leads us cross the threshold…
Zoom Winter Study: Four-Day Intensive in the Technique and Choreography of Isadora Duncan with Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D. held live from Tempio di Danza
Available via Zoom
Register Here

Schedule:
Thursday, January 11th
4:00pm – 7:00pm (Hybrid)
Friday, January 12th
10:00am – 1:00pm (Hybrid)
Saturday, January 13th
10:00am – 1:00pm (Hybrid)
4:00pm – 7:00pm (Hybrid)
Sunday, January 14th
10:00am – 1:00pm (Hybrid)
About the Course:
Isadora from Inner Reaches to Outer Momentum:
Dancing the Jungian Typologies Through the Labyrinth
“dance is the art that gives expression to the human soul through movement, but it is also the foundation of a complete conception of life” – ID
Isadora Duncan possessed the unique ability to live from a totality of human potential and perceive all beings as vitally comprised of essential aspects – that of the mind, body, heart and soul, never neglectful of spirit. Her art constellates around these values calling for their re-emergence in individual inwardness, imagination and centeredness toward expression, expansion and wholeness. Among the first to permit herself the strong, gravitational pull of authenticity, she discovered a movement language of the soul. Through its’ inspirational and revelatory capacity, it continues to usher dancers on a truer, deeper and more complete life path.
Concurrently, to hone the self along the way, C.G. Jung conceived a language of typologies to offer a nomenclature on the differing, inborn personality types. He created these typologies as unifying principles to aid in the integration of the self and the understanding of others. He identified two major personality ‘attitudes’ or frameworks for the process of living one’s destiny: from outward in; and from inward out – extroversion and introversion. Additionally, he codified types into four psychological ‘functions’ of consciousness or modes of orientation to support clear and viable engagement with one’s inner and outer world. They were the functions of thinking and feeling for the rational, organizing of indirect experience; and sensation and intuition for the non-rational, perceiving of direct experience.
Seamlessly within Isadora’s art these types are made visible. We find them, too, wherever hidden within the labyrinthine self upon the circuitous road of life. We shall meet them together at the Tempio reckoning with the powers of thinking, feeling, sensing and intuiting on inner and outer quests via personal and group movement exercises, tableaux vivants, vision poems, physical theater, dance technique and choreography. There we shall re-inherit these gifts through awareness into action allowing art’s subtle but cogent process the weight, space and time to flow into beauty’s possibility. Epiphanies on self and other, seen in a new light from a different perspective, wait to be revealed via Jung’s semi-scientific slant. May within these embodied realizations, indecipherable secrets be given sense life that ‘the thoughts and feelings of the soul’ might brim with renewed vigor. In Duncan works and those we forge as an ensemble, we continue the spiral dance to grasp how and why we are meant for this place, our world, and this time, 2024, reverencing and reveling in being here now.

Isadora: In Filtering Light 🎬 The Glamorous Amorous in Hollywood Classic Cinema
2024-02-16 19:30 - 21:30
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FREE PERFORMANCE - The Oracular Voice of Beauty
2024-06-20 18:30 - 19:30 | National Arts Club
The Isadora Duncan International Institute will honor the original Delphic Games and their modern reinstatements as they enact Isadora’s Duncan ethos on the merging of the arts in an evening of music, dance, and poetry. Artistic Director Jeanne Bresciani with the Isadora Duncan International Institute dancers will “weave a spellbinding tapestry of artistry and elegance” (NY Social Diary, ‘24). Guest Artists will include Mary DiSanto-Rose, Zoie Lafis, and Cynthia Word. Excerpts from Vince Gagliardi’s video, “MANTO – Movtio,” an immersive 3D experience on the ancient oracle of Delphi will also be presented.

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August CPI | Isadora Duncan in a 'Style Transcendent'
2024-08-15 16:00 - 2024-08-18 18:00 | Tempio di Danza, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
Isadora Duncan in a ‘Style Transcendent’
Thursday, August 15th through Sunday, August 18th, 2024

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In-Person Summer Study: Four-Day Intensive in the Technique and Choreography of Isadora Duncan with Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D. held live from Tempio di Danza
Zoom Option Available
Movement seminars will take place at Tempio di Danza’s beautiful air-conditioned, sprung, wooden-surfaced studio. Daylight and evening seminars will also be held poolside, in the water, and at outdoor locations.Beginning 4PM Thursday, ending 6PM on Sunday
Open to all General Students and Candidates in The Certificate Program in Isadora Studies I: The Training
Schedule:
Thursday, August 15th
Session I – 4:00pm – 7:00pm | In-Person & Zoom
Friday, August 16th
Session II – 10:00 am – 1:00pm | In-Person & Zoom
Session III – 4:00pm – 7:00pm | In-Person Only
Saturday, August 17th
Session IV – 10:00 am – 1:00pm | In-Person & Zoom
Session V – 4:00pm – 6:00pm | In-Person Only
Session VI – 8:00pm – 10:00pm | In-Person Only
Sunday, August 18th
Session VII – 9:00am – 12:00pm | In-Person & Zoom
Session VIII – 3:00pm – 6:00pm | In-Person Only
Studio Performance – 5:00pm Sunday | In-Person Only
Reception to follow
Sessions shall take place in air-conditioned studio setting complete with sprung floor and poolside

For more information, please contact:
info@idii.org ~ 212.753.0846
Tuition: $500 In-Person / $300 Zoom Attendance
Open to general students and those enrolled in the Certificate Program in Isadora Duncan Studies I: The Training.
Directions to the IDII can be found here.
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 where available.

DC Workshop Live & Via Zoom! Isadora Duncan: Threshold to the Mysteries
2024-09-27 - 2024-09-28 | Dumbarton Church, 3133 Dumbarton St. NW, Washington, D.C.
Presented by Word Dance Theater
Isadora Duncan: Threshold to the Mysteries
With Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D.
Friday, September 27th – Saturday, September 28th, 2024 Dumbarton United Methodist Church, Washington, D.C.
Held Live and Via Zoom

In the beginning was the dance. Predating Greek theater as an art form, women, in spontaneous motion upon threshing grounds, rhythmically stamped on stone to crush the grain, nourish the populace and enact the “glorious childbirth of the dance.” In continuity, we are fed via animate, archetypal embodiment to dance, interconnecting mystery to knowledge and to what lies between. Honoring the Greater Eleusinian Mysteries, celebrated to vitalize the life force for almost 2,000 years on the last 9 days of September, we shall craft theatre-dance ceremonies of recollection in 9 hours together. “Out of ourselves and something greater than all selves,” in other words, through the mysteries, we shall pierce the veil not just to the within but to the above, beneath and beyond, bearing promise that what was lost of individual and communal totality and stability can be found.

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Express CPII | The Apotheosis of the Dance: Re-Beginnings with Beethoven
2024-11-09 | Tempio di Danza, 20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY, 12440
The Apotheosis of the Dance:
Re-Beginnings with Beethoven
Reconstructing Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, Movement II – Allegretto

Express Certificate Program II in Isadora Duncan Studies: The Dances
Saturday, November 9th, 2024

Schedule
Saturday, November 9th
9am-1pm | 3pm-7pm
Informal Showing 6pm – 7pm at Tempio di danza
Both Sessions Available In-Person & Live Via Zoom
Tempio di danza, High Falls, NY
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About the Course:
If the highest goal of music is to connect one’s soul to one’s divine nature, then Isadora’s efforts to dance to the music of Beethoven neared that apogee. She discovered a sublime language for revelation unto dance above all others in Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, the ‘Apotheosis of Music’. In Beethoven, the maker, she heard the humming of heartstrings and spied the celestial spacing amidst heavenly spheres ordained by the Greeks and dreamt by musical giants of all time. In differing yet exquisitely harmonious forms, Beethoven and Isadora revolutionized the art of composition, originating lasting testaments to humanism broaching new octaves of human feeling. As thunderclaps in history, each defined the individual capacity for heroism in art leading all who follow. As ‘daughter of Prometheus’ on dancing grounds everywhere, courage became her – to summon, “Wisdom and Reason, Joy and Sorrow Eternal,” and to dare dance to this symphony. Proceeding from Terpsichore to Euterpe’s lyric voice, Melpomene’s tragic chord and Polyhymnia’s sacred vigil, each of the Muses Nine join in indispensable accord. We imagine no other of the choreographer’s masterworks reaching the explicit heights, depths and underworld schema of the Allegretto. In unending precedent, before Isadora in time and everywhere in this opus, Beethoven asked, “convey to me your sorrow,” that you might redeem it through your joy. Now, alas, we respond.
Let us enter these great works together: Movement I in reimagination and Movement II in reconstruction amidst a teeming throng of instruments, ideas, sparks and the flaming raiment of red drape. Therein, we shall chart the solemn movements and whirling motifs of the Allegretto as handed down to me by Maria- Theresa Duncan; and we shall search the memory store of beholding her deep listening to re-animate the Poco sostenuto – Vivace. The memory theater is loaded with utterance spoken, gesture expressed and movement made by the great dancer, Maria-Theresa, ever in vivid aliveness, bearing witness and reverence to her adoptive mother and mentor, Isadora.

Jeanne Bresciani, 2024

Performance! Brilliant Exile: Isadora Duncan in Paris
2024-12-12 19:30 - 21:00
BRILLIANT EXILE: ISADORA DUNCAN IN PARIS
Word Dance Theater (www.worddance.org, Inspired by the National Portrait Gallery’s extraordinary exhibit, Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris 1900-1939, and in partnership with La Maison Francaise, the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., proudly presents Brilliant Exile: Isadora Duncan in Paris. Join us for an evening of spell-binding and timeless Duncan dances accompanied by masterful pianist Carlos Cesar Rodriquez.
The early 20th century brought many ambitious, unconventional American women such as Isadora Duncan to Paris. These “Brilliant Exiles” challenged the prevailing conceptions of female identity and redefined the image of modern womanhood. Themes such as autonomy and liberation of the female body; female identity and creative expression; art influenced by Nature; and the metaphysical in Art, were at the heart of their Art. Word Dance Theater provides unique insight into Isadora Duncan’s choreography from this period in an evening of dance, music, and historical commentary. Word Dance Theater is joined by brilliant Duncan dancers, Jeanne Bresciani and Rosemary Cooper from the Isadora Duncan International Institute,( www.idii.org) in bringing to vibrant life the master choreography of Isadora Duncan. Join us for Brilliant Exile: Isadora Duncan in Paris followed by a Question/Answer session between audience and artists!
When: Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 7:30
Where: Maison Francaise: 4101 Reservoir Rd, Washington, D.C. 20007
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POSTPONED | A Winter Garden Festival of Light 🌲 Isadora Festival Class
2025-01-01 19:00 | Zoom
POSTPONED!
New Date! Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 at 7pm Eastern
Please join us live via Zoom with Jeanne Bresciani to light the way this Winter Festive Season and traverse the evergreen spiral in our annual Winter Garden.
We invite you to craft a circle of boughs, garlands or silks and to keep a candle or faux candle at the ready for lighting. Jeanne Bresciani shall guide us in thematic movement to walk the labyrinthine path unto the birth of the sun via music, dance and verse.

Offered Freely | Register to Attend
