New Duncan Dance Project

The New Duncan Dance Project is a collaboration between Boston dance artists Kelli Edwards and Sandra Zarotney Keldsen that explores the work of modern dance pioneer and feminist Isadora Duncan, bringing her work into the 21st century. 

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We restage the work of Isadora Duncan, sometimes preserving the work historically while at other times reimagining the work as it relates to a contemporary audience. We also create new work that not only explores the movement tradition of Duncan, but also carries on the ideas of bodily freedom and autonomy.

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Education is also part of our mission. We strive to teach the technique and movement vocabulary that Duncan developed over a century ago, preserving her practice of movement coming from the solar plexus and breath.  

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Sandy and Kelli come from a long tradition of Duncan's work, training extensively with Dances By Isadora founding members Catherine Gallant and Patricia Adams. They performed with DBI from 1993 and in 2012 formed Dances By Isadora Boston.