Study myth & movement in Gr

[Suzie Snyder]

I thought I'd pass on the following on to the alt.arts.ballet community
since I thought some of you out there might be interested.
(all typos are undoubtedly mine)

Friends of mine who have been on similar trips led by Jeanne to Greece and
Italy in previous years rave about how wonderful the experience was, and
how much they learned about dance, art, philosophy, history, etc. If I can,
I'll definitely be going myself. No previous dance training is necessary,
yet even professionals can benefit greatly.

If you're interested, move fast, registration ends June 1.

--Suzie

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Sacred Topographies: The Body and the Land
Adventure Travel in Myth, Movement and Metaphor

A group journey sponsored by the Isadora Duncan International Institute
and lead by Jeanne Bresciani (see bio below).

Greek Idylls: Greece, The Greek Islands and Albania
July 26 through August 10, 1996

We shall embark together on an odyssey beyond modern Greece to the
ancient and inner inheritance of a civilization that has inspired the
spiritual, artistic and cultural life of the West for two millennia. The
filter of our experience shall be the 'moving body', traveling avidly
across land and sea and awakening to archaic stirrings, sense memories
and innate choreographies in the rich and varied topographies of Greece
and Albania. We shall 'consciously seek what we have unconsciously lost':
that Greek synthesis of nature imbuing art with soul and art preserving
the divine in nature.
The journey will be twofold. Following a short visit to Athens, the
group will sail to the island of Tinos and there spend a week at a beautiful
dance center. Morning sessions in Isadora Duncan technique and
choreography and afternoon sessions in myth and movement will be held
each day, culminating in an informal performance at the art center for
those who wish to participate.
We then sail to the port of Piraeus for a seven day luxury cruise
aboard the Sun Line - Epirotiki Orpheus. From the ideal, historical
vantage point of voyager, we will steep ourselves in mainland legacies
at Delphi, Olympia, Epidaurus, Mycenae and Albania's Saranda and in
island excursions to Ithaca, Corfu, Zante, Crete, Santorini, and Mykonos.
Movement experiences and seminars will continue throughout aboard ship
and at archaeological sites.

Cost - Air, Land and Sea: $4,000

Registration Information:
--Registration is open until June 1, 1996. Call (212) 753-0846
to inquire if space is available after that date.
--No previous dance training is necessary.
--Accommodations are first class or comparable, based on double
occupancy.
--All airport taxes, hotel taxes, port charges, group excursions,
and admissions are included.
--All group flights originate from New York City and are included
in the tour cost.
--Porterage fees and gratuities to drivers and guides are included.
--Breakfasts and dinners are included. Aboard ship, three meals
plus per day are included.
--Friends and family may accompany participants at reduced cost.
--All programs are available for graduate or undergraduate
academic credit from New York University Graduate School of
Education upon prior arrangement.
--A deposit of $500 is required. Full payment is due two months
prior to departure.
--Prorated partial refunds will be provided for all cancellations -
up to one month prior to departure.
--Full itineraries available upon request.
--Program subject to minor changes.
--The IDII is a tax exempt, not-for-profit educational organization.

For further information please call or fax (212) 753-0846.

To register send name, address, day and evening phone numbers,
and either the $500 deposit or full payment with a note indicating
that you are registering for Greek Idylls to:

The Isadora Duncan International Institute, Inc.
150 East 61st Street, Suite 11C
New York, NY 10021

Jeanne Bresciani, Artistic Director of the Isadora Duncan International
Institute, has received worldwide acclaim as a solo performer, lecturer,
educator and creator of festivals. She is a Kress Fellow and Master of
Arts in the History of Art from Williams College as an historian of
Olympian mythology, and Fulbright Scholar and Master of Arts in Dance
from New York University. She has performed as soloist at New York's
Lincoln Center, at the National Museum of Dance at Saratoga Springs,
before the United Nations General Assembly, and as America's dance
ambassador to Korea at pre-Olympics ceremonies in 1988. Currently,
she is a Doctoral candidate, faculty member and creator of the Master
of Arts specialization in Duncan studies at NYU and founding director
of the Isadora Programs, based at the Harkness Dance Center of the
92nd Street Y with satellites in the US and abroad.
Jeanne is the chief exponent/performer of the legacy of Maria-
Theresa Duncan, recipient of the first Maria-Theresa award
presented at Lincoln Center in 1988. She combines the lineage of
Elizabeth Duncan, Anna, Irma, and Maria-Theresa, having trained
as a child with Anita Zahn, and later with Julia Levien and Hortense
Kooluris, with Maria-Theresa and Kay Bardsley. From 1976-79,
she was a soloist with the Isadora Duncan Commemorative Dance
Company, and later co-artistic director of her own Dancers for
Isadora. In 1987 she succeeded to artist-in-residence of the IDII,
founded ten years earlier by Maria-Theresa and Bardsley.
Subsequently, she founded the IDII dancers and the Isadora for
Children performing group.
As guest faculty at the Laban Institute for Movement Studies, The
New York Center for Jungian Studies, Omega Institute, the NYC Board
of Education Special Projects Division, as well as schools and colleges
around the world, her focus is movement for dancer and non-dancer
alike. Her projects have been funded by the National Endowment for
the Arts, the New York State Council of the Arts, the Mid-Atlantic
Arts Foundation and the Hearst Foundation, to name a few. A veteran
in mind/body therapies, Jeanne trained with Alexander Lowen, founder
of BioEnergetic Analysis and Ruth Wolfert, director of Gestalt Groups.
She completed an I.M.A. degree in Movement Analysis and Imaginal
Psychotherapy, a program directed by Debra McCall inspired by the
work of Rudolf Laban, Karl Jung, and James Hillman.