The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation is proud to announce that Isadora Duncan will be featured on a U.S. Postal Service Stamp. The stamp will be available in the spring of 2012 as part of an issuance honoring four innovative choreographers including  Jos� Lim�n, Katherine Dunham, and Bob Fosse.

The set of stamps was designed by art director Ethel Kessler, and feature illustrations by James McMullan, known for his poster art for the Lincoln Center Theater productions.

Look for celebratory events coming up!  

We have been invited to perform on Sunday, September 11th as part of the annual Remembrance of 9/11 event produced by the Board of Directors of Alice Austen House and the FDNY Staten Island Retirees Association.

Photo by Lesley Powell

The program will be held on the front lawn overlooking the Manhattan skyline from 5:00 to 9:00 pm with various performers including speakers, singers, and dancers. Apprentices Kim D'Agnese, Emily D'Angelo, Allison Kimmel, and Morgana Mellett will be joined by Beliloveables Rachel Herzog and Samantha Jo Vicens in a site-specific performance based on Artistic Director Lori Belilove's new work Scarf Variations. The night will also include a water display by New York City fire boats and complimentary refreshments and food.  At dusk a candlelight vigil will be held, where all will gather and listen to a non-denominational prayer service honoring those who were lost. Come and join us as many reflect and remember the lives lost. Bring a blanket and a lawn chair to take in this thoughtful observance of the victims of the 9/11 tragedy.

WHEN             Sunday, September 11, 5:00 pm

WHERE           Alice Austen House

                        2 Hylan Boulevard

                        Staten Island, NY 10305

                        For directions: www.aliceausten.org 

TICKETS         Free and open to the public 

Photo by Rose Eichenbaum

Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company will be in residence at St. Mary's Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee from October 19 through 21. During the week the Company will offer advanced master classes, workshops with Girls, Inc., and lecture/ demonstrations open to area youth. Closing the week will be an evening performance by the Company at Buckman Arts Center on Friday, October 21st.

Dancers in sheer Grecian dresses, their arms raised high and their faces exultant - it's not just another night at the theater, but something from another world. Lori Belilove, a celebrated practitioner of the dances of Isadora Duncan, offered a glimpse into the past... It's not only breathtaking, but real too. - Gia Kourlas, New York Times

Under the artistic direction of Lori Belilove, the Isadora Duncan Dance Company will feature works that highlight the unique qualities of Duncan's repertoire, ranging from early pieces to the later tragic solos, all with a purity of style and execution of movement hailed by the international press. This Memphis debut is not to be missed! 

WHEN                Friday, October 21, 8:00 pm

WHERE              Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary's School

                           60 Perkins Extended

                           Memphis, TN 38117

TICKETS            Tickets are $25 with discounts available for students and  

                           seniors and may be purchased by calling (901) 537-1483  

                           or click here to buy your tickets now!  

This program has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius and is also supported in part by SouthArts and ArtsMemphis.  

Photo by Raymond Duncan

The Archaeology Committee of The National Arts Club along with the Archaeological Institute of America is delighted to present Isadora on the Acropolis, an illustrated lecture. Focusing upon Isadora Duncan Dancing at the Acropolis will be four panelists: Founder and Artistic Director of the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation dancer Lori Belilove, Archaeology Committee Chair Michele A.F. Kidwell, Dr. Mark Rose who is integral to all of NAC's unique programs, and specialist in archival photographs Professor Andrew Szegedy-Maszak of Wesleyan University. This evening celebrates the extraordinary inspiration of Athens upon this revolutionary genius of modern dance. The Acropolis, with its greatest monument the Parthenon, has threaded a magical web through many of NAC's past events.

Ms. Belilove will trace Isadora's path and inspirations, from her early days in California where she donned a Grecian inspired tunic, to London where she haunted the British Museum, to Paris where she assumed poses similar to those seen in vases for her sibling Raymond to sketch. Thoughts of the Classical world exerted a siren's beckoning call over her very being. Arriving in Greece in 1904, Isadora wrote in My Life "a great, longing impatience for the Parthenon finally prevailed...with trembling limbs and hearts faint with adoration, ascending the steps of her Temple...I was born for the first time in that long breath and first gaze of pure beauty...for here was Beauty too sacred for words."

Ms. Belilove's half hour discussion at 6:00 on Isadora's legacy and fabulous life "more adventurous than any cinema" precedes the formal program. The discussion will be accompanied by brief clips of Vanessa Redgrave in The Loves of Isadora as well as renown photographs taken by her brother Raymond Duncan and Edward Steichen. This spiritual pilgrimage is particularly fitting on this date, as it commemorates the anniversary of Isadora's tragic demise in 1927.

WHEN             Wednesday, September 14

                        6:00 Discussion on the Dance of Isadora Duncan 

                        6:30 Lecture Presentation 

                        7:30 Reception

WHERE           The National Arts Club

                        15 Gramercy Park South

                        New York, NY 10003

                        (212) 475-3424

                        www.thenationalartsclub.org 

TICKETS         Free and open to the public (space permitting)

On Monday, October 17th, The Beliloveables will be performing at the Lower School Assembly at The Chapin School, a private school for girls on the upper east side of Manhattan.

The performance by The Beliloveables will be preceded by a brief introduction by Artistic Director Lori Belilove and followed by a Q&A session and an explorative audience-participation segment.  

The Beliloveables (junior professional performing troupe of The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation) are a talented and acclaimed group of young Duncan dancers, ranging in age from 10 through 17, under the artistic direction of Lori Belilove.