“…there is a freshness and freedom in Pond’s interpretation”

– Nicholas Minns

“One can witness the power of Duncan’s pioneering technique”

– Cloud Dance Festival

As a direct lineage Duncan dancer since 2001, I have been personally coached in the early 20th century inherited repertory by Lori Belilove, Barbara Kane, Cherlyn Smith and Julia Levien, and have taught and performed this technique throughout the United States and Europe. My interest and focus centered on a contemporary dialogue with the work, and I developed 3 full length contemporary works which used my development of the Duncan technique in choreography. I also developed and ran workshops and a contemporary dance class series in contemporary Duncan technique, which re-imagines the class material from the principles of solar-plexus initiation, breath-led gesture, musicality and improvisation. I co-initiated the Duncan Dance Project, a repertory company active between 2015-2019. I co-organised the Isadora Duncan Symposium between 2014-2018, an international gathering of Duncan practitioners which fostered the development of the field. Between 2001-2005 I was a member of the Isadora Duncan Dance Company directed by Lori Belilove (NYC) and between 2012-2017 I was active in Barbara Kane’s Isadora Duncan Dance Group London / Paris, during which time I also initiated research / exchange weeks with Birgit Pittig, a contemporary Duncan artist trained in the Elizabeth Duncan technique by Hannelore Schick, and Francoise Rageau, a direct lineage dancer in the Lisa Duncan school from Paris, along with Valerie Durham and Barbara Kane.  I particularly love working with the repertory in creative ways and have worked as a guest artist with Round in Circles productions and Dan Chilcott in Margate to incorporate Duncan into contemporary performance research as well as with Cambridge Youth Opera, as well as performed Duncan repertory in gallery spaces like Calvert22 (London), and the Modigliani Institut, Rome. The above video was filmed in Rome during the ExitFestival and is a compilation of repertory works Chopin Prelude No. 7, Moment Musicale, an improvisation, and Chopin’s Minute Waltz.