Chopin — Mazurka in D major, Op. 33, No. 2 (Twirling/Theresa Mazurka)
- Music:
Chopin — Mazurka in D major, Op. 33, No. 2
- Original choreography by: Isadora Duncan (c. 1902)
- Other titles: Capture
- Categories: lyrical dances
Reconstructed by Hortense Kooluris.
Notes
Hortense Kooluris
Reference: Nahumck, Nadia Chilkovsky. Isadora Duncan: The Dances. Washington DC: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1994.
Capricious, flirtatious, delicious.
Valerie Durham
The dance uses a strong diagonal floor pattern, with upright, light skips and flashing, circling and pressing arms ending in a twirl that rounds back to the upstage corner in a variety of flirtatious gestures, lifts and reaches. Other moments stomp and twist, dig and pull back, spin and suspend, hiding and revealing. The strong skips on the diagonal return, more vigorously and then more gently, to finish in a final flurry of stomps, twirls, runs and a lunging reach.
Videos
| Title | Date | Dancers | Full Dance? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dances by Isadora at Jacobs Pillow 7-13-17 INSIDE/OUT Series | 2017-07-13 | Yes | ||
| Mazurka "Anima Animus" by Isadora Duncan | 2017 | Yes | ||
| Dances by Isadora: Animus | 2001 | Natalia Brillante, Francesca Todesco | Yes | |
| DFI Cunningham | 1980 | Judith Ann Landon | Yes |
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The Collection of Barbara Kane > Programs > Isadora Duncan — 1908
The Collection of Janaea Rose Lyn (McAlee) > Programs > Isadorables
The Isadora Duncan Archive Collection > Programs > Isadora Duncan in the 21st Century — Jan 20, 2017