MOVE! Women's Rights from ISADORA DUNCAN to NOW

Join the dancers, actors, and singers of Word Dance Theater in an artful and exuberant celebration of the Suffragist movement from 1920 to now.

In The Kennedy Center’s beautiful new Skylight Pavilion, audiences will witness a delicate weaving of Isadora Duncan’s groundbreaking historical dances for social justice from the suffragist period with contemporary dances created by award-winning Duncan choreographer and dancer, Cynthia Word. A live chorus led by virtuoso pianist and music director Carlos Cesar Rodriguez offers emboldening songs of suffragists then and now, and powerful theatrical scenes created from historical and contemporary writings of the women’s movement by Helen Hayes Award nominated playwright Jenny McConnell Frederick tell the stories of the suffragist journey from Votes for Women to #MeToo.

ABOUT WORD DANCE THEATER
Word Dance Theater, www.worddance.org, is an award-winning modern dance company specializing in preserving the dances of Isadora Duncan, the Mother of Modern Dance, as well as creating new dances in the Duncan style for 21st century audiences. For over 20 years, Word Dance Theater has artfully blended music, theater, and visual arts with free and natural dance movements to explore and celebrate the resilient human spirit.

Word Dance Theater is supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County Government and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.

Photo credit: Ryan Maxwell