Recent Performances

Please join Moving Visions Dance on May 31-June 2 for a program featuring new and recent works along with dances from the legacy of Isadora Duncan (2027 will mark her 150th birthday!). The program produced by Loretta Thomas will take place at Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center. Thanks to Loretta’s generosity and vision many dances were created and restaged at her Murray Street Studio from 1999-2022. Glad to have this performance opportunity to share a solo, quintet and a large cast work c.1921 by Isadora Duncan.

photo: R. Michaels

Late Echo (choreography Catherine Gallant) is a work for five dancers. The choreography gleans images from John Ashbury’s 1979 poem, Late Echo. The dance looks slowly and closely at the minute reflections in nature’s eye, moving our “chronic inattention” to aliveness as the movement shifts and drifts between the dancers, the projected video images and the space. A palpable urgency propels the movement through deep shadows and uncertain destinations. With dancers Kathleen Caragine, Colleen Edwards, Rosy Gentle, Amelia Sanders, Rebecca Seow

We have created a re-invention of a work inspired by the 1992-93 reconstruction by Julia Levien of Duncan's 1921 work to Chopin's Polonaise Op. 40 No. 2. The dark brooding nature of Chopin's music underlies the rise and fall of the undulating torsos as a group of dancers moves in close proximity. They seem to be wanderers, searchers, refugees moving cautiously amid unspecified danger. The original (as taught by Julia Levien) will be present in a way that recedes and emerges through a finely wrought connection to urgent energies of the present. The work will reverberate between the collective movement of the group and individual voices of the journey. The audio environment will include echos of Chopin within a collage of sound including Gloria Coates' Symphony #1.

Catherine Gallant, (performer/choreographer/educator) has been creating work in NYC over the past 40 years. Catherine Gallant/DANCE brings dance to new audiences through direct interaction with the public. Ms. Gallant's work has been performed in Times Square, a pedestrian block of E. 91st Street in Manhattan, Green-Wood Cemetery, and Inwood Hill Park. She has also presented work at the 92Y Harkness Dance Center, City Center Studios, WestFest, Danspace St. Mark’s (Dance Access), American Dance Guild and Jacob's Pillow's Inside/Out Series. Ms. Gallant’s work has been supported by Jody and John Arnhold, LMCC, Chashama, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Partnerships for Parks/City Parks Foundation. Catherine is also the director of Dances by Isadora which, since 1989, performs, teaches and collaborates with dancers throughout the world. Catherine is the US performer of Jerome Bel’s recent work, Isadora Duncan. She began her study of the technique of Isadora Duncan in 1982 with Julia Levien and is a founding member of the Duncan Archive duncanarchive.org. Catherine was the full-time NYCDOE dance educator at PS 89 in Manhattan from 1998-2023. She and her students were featured in the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary, PS DANCE! Catherine is on the faculty of the Dance Education Laboratory (DEL).and Hunter College. Ms. Gallant is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory and holds an MFA in Dance from Temple University. www.dancesbyisadora.com www.catherinegallantdance.com

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