Kathleen Quinlan with dancers Hanna Blomqvist, Lilly Zetterberg and Amelie Borg
Saturday afternoon, October 14
15.30–17.30
Please join us for a Saturday afternoon filled with art, dance, and conversation. Three solos of Isadora´s dancers Hanna Blomqvist, Lilly Zetterberg, and Amelie Borg. Choreographies that explore Nature, Death and one´s position in the universe. Choreographed by Isadora Duncan between 1903-1913. Directed by Kathleen Quinlan, Kathleen will introduce and explain each piece.
NARCISSUS
Dancer: Hanna Blomqvist
Music: Chopin waltz opus 64 #2
ELEGIE / FUNERAL MARCH
Dancer: Lilly Zetterberg
Music: Gabriel Faure Elegie opus 24
FLUTE SOLO
Dancer: Amelie Borg
Music: Gluck´s Orfeo and Euridice
Hanna Blomqvist, Lilly Zetterberg, and Amelie Borg are three professional dancers who have danced in Modern dance Companies, Ballet Companies, and as soloists in the work of Isadora Duncan. Each dancer comes from a different background and carries their experiences into their performance, all having been trained and coached by Kathleen Quinlan. Here you can see three women and their relationship to the work of Isadora.
KATHLEEN QUINLAN comes from New York and was educated at the Boston Conservatory of Music, Boston Museum School of Art, and S.U.N.Y. Purchase, and has been living in Stockholm since 1987. She was a soloist in Anna Sokolow's dance company in N.Y.C. and is foremost in the world in the Isadora Duncan tradition. Kathleen had a close friendship with Anna Duncan and also inherited Duncan's entire archive and belongings, which among other things enabled two exhibitions of Isadora Duncan for Dansmuseet Stockholm. As a choreographer, Kathleen has worked with dance, theater and opera in New York and Paris. In Sweden and Denmark, she has toured with pianist Roland Pöntinen in a tribute to Isadora. Since 1989, she has collaborated with Ika Nord as a choreographer in her performances. Kathleen has also taught in Isadora Duncan's tradition at the Academy of Dance in Piteå, the Ballet Academy, and the Royal Swedish Ballet School. More information on Kathleen Quinlan and The Isadorables can be seen on their website: http://www.inalivingtradition.com/ and Instagram account: @inalivingtradition.
JOANNE GRÜNE-YANOFF is an interdisciplinary artist working across video, sound, sculpture, and textiles. Her role expands further to include director and playwright, inventor and maker, storyteller and community builder. Through her practice, she works with various materials that perform and support her fascination with the innate realm of being. Cassandra is a part of this, a character who investigates contemplation and longing. Metaphorically, Cassandra embodies Grüne-Yanoff’s practice, that of a grounded being who looks up to the sky, thinking about flight.
Photo: Tina Axelsson
