Lori Belilove's direct lineage and prestigious performing career have earned her an international reputation as the premier interpreter and ambassador of the dance of Isadora Duncan. She has been hailed as “ ...one of the most impassioned and authentic Duncan interpreters around.” (Janice Ross, Oakland Tribune). Through her performances, master classes, and workshops, children, college students and professional dancers have experienced the purity, timelessness, authentic phrasing, and musicality that has been passed down to Lori through the direct line of Isadora Duncan dancers. Among her teachers were Anna Duncan and Irma Duncan, two of the six adopted artistic daughters of Isadora.

Ms. Belilove received a BFA in dance, religion, and classical studies from Mills College, Oakland, CA. She trained extensively in the modern technique of Doris Humphrey as a private student of both Eleanor King and Ernestine Stodelle, original members of the Humphrey-Weidman Dance Company.

Belilove has toured extensively both nationally and internationally including Brazil, Korea, West Africa, Canada, Mexico and Europe. She maintains a studio and school in New York City and is considered an important source for the documentation and interpretation of the Duncan technique and repertory. She is the leading dancer in the award-winning PBS documentary 'Isadora Duncan: Movement From the Soul' narrated by stage and screen actress Julie Harris.
In 2003 she staged and danced the leading role as Isadora in the new dance-theater work, Isadora… No Apologies. Held at the Duke Theater on 42nd Street, the show ran for two weeks to sold-out houses. Deemed “irresistibly joyous” by Jack Anderson of The New York Times, Anderson wrote, “Through her dancing, Ms. Belilove, a Duncan authority, makes this great choreography seem eternally fresh.” At Peter Norton Symphony Space in March 2004 Lori premiered Isadora Into the 21st Century, called “ingenious” by Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times, the evening featured two of her newest choreographic works, Perfumes of the Night, a modern Isadora waltz for four women set to a revised score of 'Valse Triste' by Sibelius, and Wind Sail, a dance inspired by a friend’s voyage of 1,000 days at sea and set to a piano concerto by Michael Nyman. In 2007 her latest work, The EveryWoman Series: The Red Thread, an emotionally charged suite of dances exploring the lives of women through different phases, had its world premiere to critical and audience acclaim at the Ailey Citigroup Theater.