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| "Butterfly Etude:" Emily D'Angelo, Hayley Rose, Faith Kimberling Photo: John Link |
A flock of Monarch butterflies – stopping for the night in the Hudson Valley on their way to Mexico --- greeted early arrivals Saturday in Untermyer Park and Gardens, high above the river in Yonkers. Their visit was unscheduled, but no more an accident than the gust of wind which an hour later lifted the silken wings of three dancers to Chopin’s “Butterfly Etude,” nor the shaft of light from the setting sun that illumined Gluck’s “Bacchanal.” Isadora planned it that way.
Nearly a century after Isadora Duncan’s dancers
performed in Samuel Untermyer’s open-air amphitheater in 1923, Lori Belilove
and her Isadora Duncan Dance Company returned for an encore. And if Isadora was
ahead of her time, her self-anointed successor Belilove is right on time with
this revival.
