GRAND FINALE
Sunday, June 29 @ 6pm
Performances by:
• Alison Cook Beatty Dance, NY
• Ericka Squire//The Dance Company, Fl
• Julia Ciesielska, NY
• New Name Collective, NJ
• KAIROS Dance Theater, MA
• Twigs + Co, CO
• Suzzanne Ponomarenko Dance, NY
▪ WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, NY
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Alison Cook Beatty Dance
WATER
Alison Cook Beatty Dance (ACBD) is a classically-based modern dance company exploring the universal human condition through expansive and emotionally-driven movement. While grounded in American modern dance, ACBD constantly strives for new approaches to unique creative expression. This emphasis on innovation is evidenced by our commitment to diversity and inclusion in programming. ACBD is dedicated to community-centered, accessible programs, welcoming all generations, cultures, identities, and bodies. "WATER," inspired by Emily Dickinson's *Wild Nights*, explores the fluidity and power of water with a cast of six dancers. Guided by dramaturg Erika Batdorf, Alison Cook-Beatty weaves intricate movement and expression, enhanced by John Adams' Harmonium.
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Jesse Obremski (he/him), a native New Yorker, Japanese-American, graduated from LaGuardia High School and The Juilliard School with additional development at The School at Jacob’s Pillow with multiple years at The Ailey School, Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts, and Springboard Danse Montréal.
Obremski has his award-winning choreography presented nationally and internationally. Obremski is the Founder and Artistic Director of Obremski/Works, which notably had its debut at Lincoln Center through The Dance Films Associations presented by HBO. Obremski also has had his work performed by Gibney Company, BYU Contemporary Dance Theater, Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance, MOVE|NYC|, Sacred Heart University, and various others, and in the United States, Malaysia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, and Prague. Obremski served on the Executive Committee of the Junior Committee for Dance/NYC (2021-2022) and, after four years of being on the Board, now serves as Associate Executive Director of Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance.
Obremski/Works
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Ericka Squire//The Dance Company
Go Back + Fetch It
Ericka Squire // The Dance Company is known for its signature approach to choreography, which blends movement exploration, writing, and storytelling. The process is grounded in the belief that gesture serves as a key to unlocking the personal and collective stories of the dancers. This method involves deep collaboration with performers, where gesture becomes the vehicle for articulating lived experiences. It allows the dancers to bring their innate selves into the work, crafting movement that is both authentic and expressive.
“Go Back + Fetch It,” is a piece exploring the personal and collective histories of women, navigating roles such as mother, wife, sister, and partner, inspired by Mickalene Thomas’s Naomi Looking Forward #2 (2016) and Constantin Brancusi’s Mademoiselle Pogany II (1920)
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Julia Ciesielska
Everlasting memory
Julia Ciesielska, born and raised in Poland, is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York directed by Alicia Graf Mack. In 2024, she was selected to perform in R.O.S.E by Sharon Eyal in the Park Avenue Armory. In 2019, she received the Young Dancer of The Year award and a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in Poland and Pomeranian Artistic Hope 2019. Julia choreographed for Traverse City Dance Project, Juilliard Choreographers and Composers 2023, Senior Production 2025, and was selected for Choreographic Honors in 2023 and 2024. She received the 1st place in a Choreographic Competition ZAiKS 2023 and 2024 in Poland. Her piece Everlasting memory presents feelings of love, vulnerability, curiosity, and perseverance. Alongside Chopin’s Nocturne which is filled with spontaneity and changes of color, in her work, Julia explores a wide range of colors, emotions, and qualities.
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New Name Collective
Let's Learn to Dance Again
New Name Collective is based in North Jersey under the artistic direction of Gem Tantuico. They emphasize the importance of collaboration and process, and they utilize the body as a communicative medium for the soul’s playfulness. As a collective, we aim to continuously strengthen our understanding of what it means to be supportive of ourselves, the spaces we engage in, and other communities. We use our movement as a catalyst for conversation and to further articulate our ideas.
New Name Collective’s most recent work, “Let’s Learn to Dance Again,” is a lively exploration and movement documentation of the dancer’s identity – utilizing voice, body percussion, and gesture. Created in collaboration with its performers, the work demands their consistent curiosity and responsiveness: Who or what am I in this moment? Who is here? How do I softly embrace beginning and restarting? Let’s celebrate how lucky it is to begin and end together. imposed on them.
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KAIROS Dance Theater
Seagulls & Phoenixes
Founded in 2014, Mending Dance Theater producing forward-looking, cross-domain dance works that link deeply with society, developing an aesthetics full of dramatic tension and poetic quality in the contemporary dance theater.
“Alternative Talk”(黑白話) is pronounced in Taiwanese. It consists of many people’s dialogues and their soliloquies and is experimented in Taiwanese rap. This work fuses the contemporary body languages of modern dance and street dance, presenting one of Taiwan’s features: multiple cultures. In this performance, Mending Dance Theater creates a new story in Taiwanese, turning the feelings of watching the disappearance of memory and culture into dances from the perspective of urban youth. In addition to Mending Dance Theater's expertise in the fusion of the body experiences of modern dance and street dance, the combination of a poetic atmosphere, soundscapes, and Taiwanese dialogues in rap with funk rhythm create a fresh experience of both strangeness and closeness to the audience.
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Twigs + Co
This is the reactability of the appetizer
"[Twigs' work] contains many scenes happening simultaneously, with equal attention granted to each one. This makes for a lot to look at and a lot to guess about, in the best way. It’s a jigsaw puzzle and the audience is invited to put the pieces together. Characters come in and out of the story, disappearing and reappearing. Demolished scenes return later. This work is fascinating, both to marvel at and dissect. I would have liked to see it multiple times."
- Meredith Pellon, Seattle Dances
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Suzzanne Ponomarenko Dance
Prism
Suzzanne Ponomarenko is a Ukrainian-American Choreographer, and Performer, and Dance Educator based in Queens. They established Suzzanne Ponomarenko Dance in 2017 as a landing point for creating, producing, and performing dance works grounded in classical techniques intertwined with inventive, idiosyncratic, and rigorous movement alongside a thoughtful queer-centric studio practice. Currently, they are a part of Pioneer Go East Collective’s Mentorship Cohort (2025-26), are a 2025 Spring Resident Artist at Baryshnikov Arts Center, and serve on the selection committees of The NY Bessie’s Dance and Performance Awards and The Clive Barnes Foundation. The piece that they are showing today is abstracted and remolded from a larger work entitled, Tapestries, which follows the curious narrative of The Unicorn Tapestries
(1495-1505) reimagined through queer aspects of Ukrainian Folk Tales. This non-narrative based performance unfolds through technical and quirky dance vocabulary abstracted from Ukrainian Folk Dance, Ballet, and Modern Dance.
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WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company
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Founded by Korean-born Young Soon Kim in 1988, the WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company is dedicated to inspiring audiences through multi-dimensional dance productions reflecting themes and philosophies both modern and timeless. We constantly strive to be a potent stimulus for progress and evolution within the dance/arts world. By producing dance concerts, festivals, and educational activities, WHITE WAVE Dance provides both nascent and seasoned choreographers/companies with an encouraging environment where they can create, collaborate, and present new works in the undisputed capital of world dance, New York City.
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