About

A Time with Isadora is a project of Movement Arts Atlanta which explores how one artist influences many by integrating historic dance works, new choreography, visual art, photography and filmmaking.

The preliminary presentation of the project was the performance of three of Limón Dances for Isadora in April 2022 as part of the 20th Anniversary Inman Park Dance Festival which is a program of the Inman Park Festival and Tour of Homes. Check out the beautiful images from the project’s resident photographer, John Ramspot, here.

On September 29, 2022, the Salon Performance of the project was presented. This program included Duncan’s Narcissus, excerpts from Limón’s Dances for Isadora, and two new works. The new works were You Were Once Wild Here by Douglas Scott of Full Radius Dance and Beauty Through Mattus by Carolyn Stine McLaughlin of Movement Arts Atlanta. The event was presented at the historic Trolley Barn and was attended by over 80 guests. The dances were followed by a lively discussion of the evening’s works and the project. The event was covered by ArtsATL and The Atlanta Journal Constitution, both online and in print. Photographs of the successful evening can be found here.

2023 saw five more events for the project. During the first weekend of February, the project streamed a film of the Salon Performance by Mollie Robertson. This was followed by the Athens and Atlanta premiers of A Time with Isadora: Documentary at Ciné and The Plaza Theatre on February 25 and March 19 respectively, click here for more details.

Coming home to the project’s original inspiration, McLaughlin’s work created for the project, Beauty Through Mattus was preformed as part of the Olmstead Plein Air Invitational’s Quick Paint Competition on Sunday, April 23, 2023, in the Dellwood Park Meadow which is a section of the Olmstead Linear Parks. Visit here for more.

Then the following weekend, the suite of works from the Salon Performance were a part of the 21st Inman Park Dance Festival. This event was free and open to the public and presented two performances, Saturday, April 29 and Sunday, April 30 at the Trolley Barn.

In 2024, the project saw the creation of the short film Beauty Through Mattus. Project Director, Carolyn Stine McLaughlin received a grant from the City of Atlanta, Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs to complete the film. This film was included in the Inman Park Dance Festival Film Showing at the end of April 2024. Photographs of the shoot day for the film are available here. The film is available to view here.

On May 30th at ATHICA in Athens Georgia, both the short film and the documentary were screened.

For the summer of 2024, the project team will create an art book which will be a collection of the photographs from the project, artist quotes and project narrative.

Movement Arts Atlanta is a dance organization based in Atlanta’s Inman Park neighborhood. This neighborhood’s 501-C3, Friends of Inman Park, is acting as fiscal agent for the project. The initial stage of the project, reconstruction and presentation of two of the Limón works at the Inman Park Dance Festival, will cost $6,000. The second phase of the project, reconstruction of the Duncan works, commissioning new works, and public presentation, will require an additional $9,000. This is a total of $15,000 for the project.

Movement Arts’ Director, Inman Park neighbor and long-time professional of the Atlanta dance community, Carolyn Stine McLaughlin will direct, manage and create work for the project. She has more than 35 years of experience teaching, choreographing and managing arts projects. Two prime examples of this last skill are the management of the Atlanta Preservation Center’s Phoenix Flies, for which she won a Jenny Thurstand Memorial Award from the Atlanta Urban Design Commission, and the development and direction of the Inman Park Dance Festival which celebrated its 20th year in 2022.