Harp Etude - music by Frederic Chopin, op.25 #1.  Choreographed by Isadora  Duncan in 1917, staged by Kathryne Cassis.

Narcissus - music by Frederic Chopin, op. 64 #2.  Choreographed by Isadora  Duncan in 1904, staged by Kathryne Cassis.

Rose Petals  - music by Johannes Brahms, op. 39 #15.  Choreographed by Isadora Duncan in 1910 as part of the Faces of Love, staged by Kathryne Cassis.

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Isadora Duncan, 1877-1927, has been called the "First Modern Dancer." She revolutionized dance by creating her own unique movement vocabulary based on natural flowing movement and the art and mythology of the ancient Greeks. Isadora was the first dancer to choreograph to classical music not written for specifically for dance.

"As I stood before the Parthenon…for many days no movement came to me…then one day came the thought: these columns which seem so straight and still are not really straight, each one is curving gently from the base to the height, each one is in flowing movement, never resting, the movement of each is in harmony with the others. And as I thought this my arms rose slowly toward the Temple and I leaned forward—and then I knew I had found my dance, and it was a Prayer." — Isadora Duncan, 1903