Join us one night only at the historic Woodstock Playhouse!
Saturday, September 6th, 2025
7pm - Doors Open at 6pm
The Woodstock Playhouse
103 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, NY 12498
(845) 679-6900
The year is 1914…
Written and directed by Jeanne Bresciani, Artistic Director of IDII, the production reawakens a forgotten chapter in American Modernism: the presence of Isadora Duncan and her adopted daughters—the Isadorables—in the historic artists’ colony of Woodstock, where spirit, landscape, and artistic lineage converged. It was here, far from the collapsing stages of WWI Europe, that Duncan turned toward the elemental: forest, body, and irreducible truths of beauty, strength, and freedom.
Fleeing the devastation of war-torn Europe, Duncan sought refuge in the ‘transcendental’ beauty of the Hudson Valley, from the utopian Byrdcliffe to the mansion houses of the Hudson, she continued her groundbreaking work in dance while caring for her adopted daughters and other displaced children from her European school. Featuring a rare reconstruction of Duncan choreography to Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, Allegretto, alongside new works, the performance evokes impassioned mission with an urgency surrounding themes of exile, resilience, and the coming of age within nature as sanctuary.
Set to music by Schubert, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and contemporary composers, this theater of love and war conjures Duncan’s experimental vision—where art and spirited movement unite to become a language of hope and liberation. In that very landscape and moment that once inspired inconsolable and ecstatic Duncan raptures, the IDII celebrates the timeless power of dance to transcend and transform.
“The Isadora Duncan International Institute weaves a spellbinding tapestry of artistry and elegance under the moonlit sky...”
New York Social Diary
TICKET PRICING:
- $19 Adult
- $14 Seniors over 65 & Children below the age of 12
- Military & Vets Free/Pay What you can (Subject to availability. Limit of 2 tickets per person. Please contact
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This project is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
The Isadora Duncan International Institute, Inc., is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit artistic; educational organization founded in 1977 by dancer Maria-Theresa Duncan, Isadora Duncan’s adopted daughter and student, and Kay Bardsley, noted dance historian and scholar.
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