About Isadora
New York, NY
Isadora Wolfe is a dance-theater artist working in New York City and the Berkshires. Isadora is an Artistic Associate of Punchdrunk, following her tenures as Resident Director and Associate Artistic Director at Sleep No More. She has collaborated as a performer and movement director with makers such as Johannes Wieland (Kassel, Germany and original member of Wieland’s NYC company), Martha Clarke (Garden of Earthly Delights, Angel Reapers), Punchdrunk (Sleep No More), Richard Jones (The Hairy Ape), David Auburn, Maxine Doyle and Gerald Casel. She has taught for companies and institutions including Ailey II, Ballet Hispanico, Dual Rivet, Jacob’s Pillow, Marymount Manhattan, Rutger’s University and Springboard Danse Festival; and is on faculty at The Juilliard School where she continues to develop her Acting for Dancers course. Isadora will be directing Metamorphosis in the fall at Berkshire Theatre Group. Find out more at www.isadoramovementarts.com
Storytelling in Dance
Isadora is interested in the connections between making dance and making stories. She seeks to develop her Acting for Dancers training module, finding the meeting ground between drama and dance skills, researching how the voice integrates with the skilled dancer’s technique and how to open pathways for dancers to tell stories, in performance or in choreography. Using scripts and literature, and by studying dance-theater works, Isadora hopes to find fertile sources to use dance or movement as the medium, or as a fully integrated language in the piece. How do we use our bodies as storytellers, to make sense of the world? How does that work with specific literature? How can a director and choreographer develop a shared language to work with both skilled dancers and actors?