![]() ![]() “I think that I understood Isadora in a way that is perhaps uncanny,” says Lori. Upon returning home, Lori immersed herself in My Life, Isadora’s autobiography. “Lori was only 12, but she asked so many intelligent questions that Vassos said, ‘Lori, you must be the next Isadora,’ ” remembers Lori’s older brother Jim Belilove, co-founder of Fairfield’s Creative Edge and former owner of the Fairfield Art of Dance studio with his wife Ginger. While in Athens, the Beliloves were introduced by chance to Vassos Kanellos, a prominent Greek dancer and painter who had been personally trained by Isadora Duncan. ![]() Her free-thinking parents nurtured her love of the arts, taking their family on an extended tour of Europe during the 1960s. Like Isadora, Lori grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area with a natural talent for dance, but ballet didn’t fit. Lori’s journey as an artist and preserver of the Isadora Duncan legacy began when she was barely a teenager. The “Forever Isadora” performance will introduce not only the history but also the authentic recreation of Isadora Duncan dance. Now Lori Belilove & the Isadora Duncan Dance Company are coming to Fairfield for two rare performances on November 15 and 16. As the founder, artistic director, and choreographer of the Isadora Duncan Dance Company & Foundation based in New York City, Lori and her troupe are considered the pre-eminent Duncan dance company performing in the world today. Hailed as the living embodiment of Isadora Duncan by the international dance community, Lori is the leading dancer in the award-winning PBS documentary Isadora Duncan: Movement From the Soul. Fortunately, the Duncan tradition is alive and well today in the form of Lori Belilove, who at an early age studied directly with Isadora Duncan’s students and has devoted her life to performing in the Duncan tradition. Don’t let them tame you.”Īt one point, Isadora’s vast dance repertoire was in danger of being lost to future generations. And she advised her students, “You were wild once. “To dance is to live-what I want is a school of life, for the riches of man are in his Soul and his Imagination,” she wrote. With flowing costumes, bare feet, and loose hair, Isadora was inspired by the ancient Greeks, the music of classical composers, and the elements of nature, such as the wind and the sea. Shunning the strict confines of ballet to listen to her inner teacher, she created a wholly original dance form that reflected the freedom of her own soul. Wherever Isadora Duncan performed, she created an immediate sensation in the Victorian society of her times. If you’re like most people, you have a vague notion of Isadora Duncan as a free spirit and the Mother of Modern Dance. Lori Belilove and company perform "The Marches!" at the Alley Citigroup Theater.
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