Gluck — Iphigenie en Aulide, Sicilienne-Bacchanale
- Suite: Iphigenie
- Music:
Gluck — Iphigenie en Aulide, Sicilienne-Bacchanale
Music is mostly from Iphigenie en Aulide, with an interlude from Armide. It is the fourth movement of the Ballet Suite No. 1 arranged by Felix Mottl from music by Gluck.
- Original choreography by: Isadora Duncan (1903)
Reconstructed by Hortense Kooluris.
Notes
Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck
Reference: Nahumck, Nadia Chilkovsky. Isadora Duncan: The Dances. Washington DC: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1994.
The dance portrays Bacchae in a wine-sated Dionysian revel. While it falls short of the bawdy, riotous spirit of the ancient Greek Kordax or Sikinnis, it does contain some strange romping, with the dancer strewing ferns about the stage and whirling dizzily to a fall.
Barbara Kane
Isadora Duncan’s version of the Dionysian Bacchanalian dancers is quite tame in terms of all that is written of the Maenads’ who danced in a frenzy of adoration for life and Dionysius. Hortense Kooluris danced this frenzy quite beautifully as a solo. Vine leaves and such abandon.
Videos
| Title | Date | Dancers | Full Dance? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IDIS 2017 performance of Bacchanal | 2017-08-11 | Yes | ||
| Bacchanale | 2017 | Yes | ||
| Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company 2013-2014 Season Highlights | 2014 | No | ||
| Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company Performance Highlights 2013 | 2013 | No | ||
| Hortense Kooluris Memorial | 2007-10-01 | Yes | ||
| Hortense Kooluris Memorial Tribute | 2007-08-01 | No | ||
| Isadora and the American Jewish Intelligentsia | 2000 | Cathleen Deutscher, Beth Jucovy, Adrienne Ramm | No | Slow section to end |
| Bacchanale excerpt from Gluck's Iphigenia, Brahms Waltz Op. 39, no. 14 | 1991-06-23 | Mary Sano | Yes | |
| Hortense Kooluris performs Bacchanale | 1987 | Jeanne Bresciani, Hortense Kooluris, Judith Ann Landon, Adrienne Ramm | Yes | |
| DDD at Golden Gate Bandshell | 1983 | Linda Elkin, Christina Fessenden, Melinda McGee, Maria Rosario Villasana, Karen Strecker | Yes | |
| Dionysian Duncan Dancers, Margaret Jenkins Performance Space | 1982-01 | Ensemble | Yes | |
| DFI Cunningham | 1980 | Yes | ||
| One Foot on the Earth, One Eye on a Star | 1978-9-14 | Hortense Kooluris | Yes | |
| Hortense Kooluris Collection | 1978 | Hortense Kooluris | Yes | |
| Tribute to Isadora Duncan, Hortense Kooluris and Dancers at the World Trade Center | 09/14/1987 | Jeanne Bresciani, Hortense Kooluris, Judith Ann Landon, Adrienne Ramm | Yes | |
| Excerpts from Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dancers | No |
Related items in the Archives
The San Francisco Museum of Performance and Design > Programs > Lisa Duncan
The San Francisco Museum of Performance and Design > Programs > Isadora Duncan — Nov 25, 1917
The San Francisco Museum of Performance and Design > Programs > Isadorables — Dec 28, 1919
The Collection of Mignon Garland > Programs > The Isadora Duncan Dance Memorial, 1952 — Dec 14, 1952
The Collection of Barbara Kane > Programs > Linda Elkin — Isadora Duncan Dancers — Nov 05, 1987
The Collection of Barbara Kane > Programs > Isadora Duncan Dance Group — 1989
The Collection of Francoise Rageau > Programs > Odile Pyros Program — Jun 22, 1987
The Isadora Duncan Archive Collection > Programs > Isadora Duncan in the 21st Century — Jan 20, 2017