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Duncan Dance Chicago Duncan Dance Chicago is Chicago's singular dance organization designed with the authentic legacy of Isadora Duncan's Dance-Art, offering classes, workshops and performances in the technique of Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance. All dance-lovers are welcome to experience learning in a fun, non-competitive, small-group class setting. Classes Each class includes a therapeutic warm-up, traditional and contemporary Duncan exercises with barre, across the floor movements, structured improvisation and segments of historical repertory. Saturdays 2:30pm - 4:00pm Class Fee: Sliding Scale $15-$20/class. Please make payment directly to instructor. Summer Workshop Moving with the Cyclical Sun Connect with the beauty and power of the sun and the rhythms that the sun cycle creates in your body and in everyday human life. Experience your own radiating power through the awakening of the solar plexus. the source of inspiration for all movement according to mother of modern dance, Isadora Duncan. This workshop will incorporate meaningful movement explorations surrounding mythical, mythological and scientific sun images, as well as traditional Duncan technique classes and historical Duncan repertory. The workshop will culminate in an informal student showing for invited family and friends.
Tuition Registration Previous Performances Duncan Dance Chicago Studio Salon Performance
Smithsonian American Art Museum Performance Duncan Dance Chicago dancers Jennifer Sprowl and Angela D'Onofrio appeared as special guest artists in a dance presentation of historic Isadora Duncan repertory at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC on Wednesday, Sept. 9th. The program included the premiere of a special new choreography "The Four Sylvan Sounds" inspired by the oil on wood panels by Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938). Choreography by Valerie Durham in the style of Isadora Duncan to the music of "A Hermit Thrush at Eve" by Amy Beach (1867-1944).
*Jennifer Sprowl is a 4th generation Duncan Dancer who was a founding member of Lori Belilove & Company in New York City, training directly with Duncan Dance luminaries Lori Belilove, Hortense Kooluris and Julia Levien. She has worked with the Rebecca Kelly Dance Company, Bill Evans, Eleanor King and many other modern dance masters. Jennifer is certified as an Active Isolated Stretch practitioner based on the “Wharton” technique and in Shiatsu with the Ohashi Method. As the sole professional Duncan Dancer in the Chicago area, she has mounted several innovative stagings of the Duncan repertory for Momenta Dance in Oakpark, IL, and teaches the Duncan technique in the Chicago area. Her uplifting, holistic approach to dance makes her classes and coaching in the Duncan technique a pure, authentic and powerful experience.
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