“I was stuck in traffic looking at the rolling terrain of the Olmstead Linear Parks and thought, ‘wouldn’t it be beautiful to see dancers there?’” she says. McLaughlin first conceived the A Time with Isadora project 10 years ago while experiencing one of Atlanta’s infamous attractions: bumper-to-bumper traffic.
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A Time with Isadora highlights the theme of how one artist influences many, and how to honor these influences through your own art-making. The evening will feature the Limón solos and commissioned works by Full Radius Dance’s Douglas Scott and staibdance’s George Staib, along with a post-show discussion with the audience and a small visual arts exhibit.įor McLaughlin, the Limón-Duncan exchange opened up a much larger conversation around freeing historic dances from grainy photographs and scant videography.
Mercy Matthews performed “Primavera” at the Inman Park Dance Festival in April. Now, her project enters its next phase with a salon-style performance on September 29 at 7 p.m. She brought re-stagings of Limón’s dances to Atlanta as a part of the Inman Park Dance Festival in April 2022. Limón regarded Duncan as his “dance mother” and choreographed solos that he felt paid homage to her spirit and life, which spanned from 1877-1927.ĭance educator Carolyn Stine McLaughlin is the creator of the A Time with Isadora project and hopes to honor Duncan’s legacy in a similar way. In 1971, vanguard modern choreographer José Limón created Dances for Isadora as a tribute to one of the pioneers of the art form - Isadora Duncan.
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