| The Isadora Duncan Dance Company at Untermyer Gardens, 2022 Carolyn Yamada, Samantha Mercado, Hayley Rose, Diana Uribe, Emily D'Angelo |
-- By Tom Phillips
Isadora Duncan was and is an outlier -- 100 years ago, a rebel against the academic dance establishment, and now, a pure classicist in a free-wheeling, eclectic dance environment. Today, no one embodies Isadora’s life and work more than Lori Belilove, director of the Isadora Duncan Dance Company and Foundation. Working out of a loft-studio in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, she has spent decades as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer, re-inventing Duncan Dance for the 21st Century. I talked with her over the last year, most recently on the last day of summer, 2022.
