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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

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