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Isadora Duncan: Technique and Repertory

The 58-minute video demonstrates Duncan’s technique and includes performances of the original Duncan repertory by the Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble. Master Duncan teacher Julia Levien narrates a historical introduction to Duncan’s technique and the development of her schools.

Reviews

  • This video, a companion to Julia Levien's Duncan Dance: A Guide for Young People Ages Six to Sixteen (Pennington, N.J.: Princeton Book Company, 1994), “is a sensitive and educational reconstruction of her work.”

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An Evening with Katherine Dunham

This inspiring 106 minute video from 2008 presents the legendary dancer Katherine Dunham at age 97. Beginning with a tribute to Dunham's career, the program contains rare footage of Dunham drumming with percussionists and a discussion of her views on rhythmic motion, Haitian dance, and love. Includes a performance by the Louines Louinis Afro-Haitian Dance Theater. Directed by Andrea Seidel

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Isadora Duncan Masterworks
1905-1923

This 52 minute DVD includes the following complete Duncan works: Ave Maria, Harp Etude, Gypsy Mazurka, Narcissus, Greeting, Gypsy, Rosepetals, Bacchanal, Furies Mother, Revolutionary, Warshavianka.  Dances performed by the Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble directed by Mantell Seidel.

Reviews

  • The Miami-based Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble delighted us with beautifully crafted renditions of Duncan's 90-year-old studies to waltzes and nocturnes by Schubert, Chopin, and Strauss.

  • …a labor of love for Mantell-Seidel…They are a winsome, fresh-faced lot with notable expansiveness of the upper body…the dancer's buoyancy and velvety use of their shoulders and arms was especially apparent in the early Duncan works…

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Isadora Duncan Masterworks

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