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