DANCES WE DANCE 2025
SCHUMANN QUARTET
(excerpt from HARMONIC DISSONANCE)
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Choreography:
Francesca Todesco (2025)
Quartet
This choreography is part of a suite inspired by Isadora Duncan's Scriabin Études
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Music: Robert Schumann
Romanze, Op. 28: No. 1
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Duration: 3'50"
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Première: November 20, 2025
at the Martha Graham Studio Theater
55 Bethune Street, 11th Floor Westbeth Building
New York, NY 10014
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​Full evening PROGRAM
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STILL WATERS
(excerpt from HARMONIC DISSONANCE)
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Choreography:
Francesca Todesco (2025)
Solo
This choreography is part of a suite inspired by Isadora Duncan's Scriabin Études
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Music: Alexander Scriabin
Prelude Op. 11: No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor
Prelude Op. 11: No. 14 in E-Flat Minor
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Duration: 3'15"
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Première: November 20, 2025
at the Martha Graham Studio Theater
55 Bethune Street, 11th Floor Westbeth Building
New York, NY 10014
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Full evening PROGRAM
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RESONANCE
(excerpt from HARMONIC DISSONANCE)
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Choreography:
Rosy Gentle (2025)
Trio
This choreography is part of a suite inspired by Isadora Duncan's Scriabin Études
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Music: Anne Müller
Solo? Repeat!
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Duration: 5'
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Première: November 20, 2025
at the Martha Graham Studio Theater
55 Bethune Street, 11th Floor Westbeth Building
New York, NY 10014
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Full evening PROGRAM
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UNBOUND
(excerpt from HARMONIC DISSONANCE)
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Choreography:
Francesca Todesco (2025)
Solo
This choreography is part of a suite inspired by Isadora Duncan's Scriabin Études
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Music: Alexander Scriabin
Op. 32: No. 2 in D Major (2 Poèmes)
Quasi valse, Op. 47
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Duration: 3'20"
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Première: November 20, 2025
at the Martha Graham Studio Theater
55 Bethune Street, 11th Floor Westbeth Building
New York, NY 10014
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Full evening PROGRAM
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WHISPER
(excerpt from HARMONIC DISSONANCE)
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Choreography:
Francesca Todesco (2025)
Duet
This choreography is part of a suite inspired by Isadora Duncan's Scriabin Études
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Music: Alexander Scriabin
Prelude, Op. 16: No. 1 in B Major
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Duration: 3'05"
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Première: November 20, 2025
at the Martha Graham Studio Theater
55 Bethune Street, 11th Floor Westbeth Building
New York, NY 10014
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Full evening PROGRAM
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HARMONIC DISSONANCE SUITE (NEW WORKS)
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Choreography:
Francesca Todesco (2025) & Rosy Gentle (2025)
These new pieces are part of a suite that includes Isadora Duncan Scriabin Études (not shown here)
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Music: Schumann, Scriabin, Davis, Müller
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Duration: 22'
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Première: November 20, 2025
at the Martha Graham Studio Theater
55 Bethune Street, 11th Floor Westbeth Building
New York, NY 10014
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Full evening PROGRAM
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SCHUBERT SYMPHONY #9: ANDANTE CON MOTO
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Choreography: Isadora Duncan
Reconstruction: Francesca Todesco (2025)
Performed by students and DwD company after a workshop.
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Music: Franz Schubert
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Duration: 13'
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Performed: May 13, 2025 - 7:30pm
The Center at Park West – 165 West 86th Street, New York, NY Performed on May 13, 2025 – 7:30pm
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Full evening PROGRAM
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SCHUBERT SYMPHONY #9: SCHERZO
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Choreography: Isadora Duncan
Reconstruction & Restaging : Francesca Todesco (2025)
Performed by students and DwD company after a workshop.
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Music: Franz Schubert
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Duration: 10'
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Performed: May 13, 2025 - 7:30pm
The Center at Park West – 165 West 86th Street, New York, NY Performed on May 13, 2025 – 7:30pm
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Full evening PROGRAM
DANCES WE DANCE 2024
CHERCHEZ LA FEMME
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Choreography: Francesca Todesco (2024)
Trio-Solos
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Music: Shaw, Pärt, Sibelius, Chopin, Meulenbroeks
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Duration: 16'
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Première: November 21, 2024
at the Martha Graham Studio Theater
55 Bethune Street, 11th Floor Westbeth Building
New York, NY 10014
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HAUNTED ECHOES
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Choreography: Annmaria Mazzini (2024)
Quartet
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Music: Meow Meow & Thomas Lauderdale Fleetwood Mac Hania Rani & Patrick Watson
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Duration: 10'
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Première: November 21, 2024
at the Martha Graham Studio Theater
55 Bethune Street, 11th Floor Westbeth Building
New York, NY 10014
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Commissioned by Dances We Dance in 2024
DANCES WE DANCE 2023
(GREAT) EXPECTATIONS
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Choreography: Francesca Todesco (2023)
Quartet
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Music: Robert Schumann, Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Duration: 9'
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First performed: November 1, 2023
at the Martha Graham Studio Theater
55 Bethune Street, 11th Floor Westbeth Building
New York, NY 10014
FUGA Y MISTERIO
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Choreography: Francesca Todesco (2022-revisited version in 2023)
Quartet
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Music: Bogdan Dragus, Astor Piazzola
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Duration: 10'
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Performed: November 1-4, 2023
at the Martha Graham Studio Theater
55 Bethune Street, 11th Floor Westbeth Building
New York, NY 10014
ELIZABETH
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Choreography: Mark Bankin (2023)
Trio
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Music: Franz Schubert
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Duration: 10'
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First performed: November 1, 2023
at the Martha Graham Studio Theater
55 Bethune Street, 11th Floor Westbeth Building
New York, NY 10014
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Commissioned by Dances We Dance in 2023
DANCES WE DANCE 2022
FUGA Y MISTERIO
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Choreography: Francesca Todesco (2022)
Quartet
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Music: Astor Piazzola
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Duration: 10'
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First performed: June 3, 2022
at the Theater at St. Jeans
150 West 76th Street
New York, NY 10021
REFLETS D'ALLEMAGNE
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Choreography: Isadora Duncan & Francesca Todesco
8 Sections (trios and quartets)
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Heidelberg - piano and improv
Dresden - choreography by Isadora Duncan (c1914)
Koblenz - choreography by Francesca Todesco (2022)
Werder - choreography by Francesca Todesco (2022)
Vienne - choreography by Francesca Todesco (2021)
Münich - piano Lübeck - choreography by Isadora Duncan (c1914)
Nuremberg - choreography by Isadora Duncan (c1914)
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Music: Florent Schmitt
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Duration: 20'
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Performed: June 3, 2022 at the Theater at St. Jeans
150 West 76th Street - New York, NY 10021
LATE ECHO
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Choreography: Catherine Gallant (2022)
Quintet
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Music: James Ra - Evocation
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Duration: 10'
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First performed: June 3, 2022
at the Theater at St. Jeans
150 West 76th Street
New York, NY 10021
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Commissioned by Dances We Dance in 2022
SCRIABIN ÉTUDES
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Choreography: Isadora Duncan (1921-23)
Solo
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Music: Alexander Scriabin
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Duration: 10'
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Performed: June 3, 2022
at the Theater at St. Jeans
150 West 76th Street
New York, NY 10021
THE CALLING
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Choreography: Francesca Todesco (2019)
Solo
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Music: Frédéric Chopin, Georg Ivanovich Gurdjieff
1. Prelude, G-Minor, Op. 28 No. 22 (Chopin)
2. Woman’s Prayer (Gurdjieff)
3. Étude, C-Minor, Op. 25 No. 12 (Chopin)
4. Armenian Song (Gurdjieff)
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Duration: 10'
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Performed: June 3, 2022
at the Theater at St. Jeans
150 West 76th Street
New York, NY 10021