Lori Belilove's direct lineage and prestigious performing career have earned
her an international reputation as the premier interpreter and ambassador of the dance of Isadora
Duncan. She has been hailed as "...one of the most impassioned and authentic Duncan interpreters around."
Janice Ross, of the Oakland Tribune, Through her performances, master classes, and workshops, children,
college students and professional dancers have experienced the purity, timelessness, authentic phrasing,
and musicality that has been passed down to Lori through the direct line of Isadora Duncan dancers.
Among her teachers were Anna Duncan and Irma Duncan, two of the six adopted artistic daughters of Isadora.
Ms. Belilove received a B.F.A. in dance, religion, and classical studies from Mills College. She trained
extensively in the modern technique of Doris Humphrey as a private student of both Eleanor King and Ernestine
Stodelle, original members of the Humphrey-Weidman Dance Company. Belilove has toured extensively both
nationally and internationally including Brazil, Korea, West Africa, Canada, Mexico and Europe. She
maintains a studio and school in New York City and is considered an important source for the documentation
and interpretation of the Duncan technique and repertory. She is the leading dancer in the award-winning PBS
documentary Isadora Duncan: Movement From the Soul narrated by stage and screen actress Julie Harris. As a
master teacher Belilove has held residencies at such distinguished institutions as Harvard University, The
Juilliard School, Northwestern University, Smith College, University of Alabama, Ohio State, Franklin &
Marshall among others. Belilove is sought after as a unique contemporary artist who understands the essence
of Isadora and who can create works in her own voice. Her most recent endeavor has been to stage and dance
the leading role as Isadora in the new in the dance-theater work Isadora...No Apologies. Held at the Duke
Theater on 42nd Street, the show ran for two weeks to sold-out houses. Deemed "irresistibly joyous" by Jack Anderson
of The New York Times, Anderson wrote "Through her dancing, Ms. Belilove, a Duncan authority, makes this great
choreography seem eternally fresh."
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