Program 1
Friday, June 24 @ 7pm
Performances by:
Alison Cook Beatty Dance, NY
Ballaro Dance, NY
Barkin/Selissen Project, NY
Flexicurve, NY
Taylor Graham, NY
Flamencodanza Aylin Bayaz, Spain
Ramona Sekulovic, Germany
Kelly Guerrero, CT
General ticket : $15
A private Live Stream video link will be forwarded to you 1 hour before the start time, and you will have 5 hours to watch the full performance at your own leisure.
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BEHIND THE CURVE
ALISON COOK-BEATTY is the Executive/Artistic Director of Alison Cook Beatty Dance, a modern dance company she founded in 2012. Originally from Milford, Connecticut, and a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music at Berklee, she has danced with the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2. Ms. Cook-Beatty’s choreography has been commissioned by institutions including Columbia Ballet Collaborative, the Steffi Nossen School of Dance, The Joffrey Ballet School, NYU (Music Department), The Boston Conservatory of Music at Berklee, Carolina Ballet, Ballet Next, Marymount Manhattan College, and Infinity Dance Theatre. Under her leadership, ACBD has received support from the New York Department of Culture Affairs, Dance NYC, and NYSCA.
Alison Cook Beatty Dance
© Paul B Goode
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Ballaro Dance
Vivaldi
Ballaro Dance builds community through the creation and presentation of modern dance while inviting its audience, often first-time dance viewers, to SEE, MOVE, & SHARE with the Company in an approachable, welcoming environment; community is prioritized at the center of the work. Ballaro Dance presents Vivaldi, a dance film in collaboration with Zoran Prodanovic. The piece highlights a coming-of-age journey building in intensity through the embodiment of an internal “blue” quality as the film climaxes in slow motion. Matching the dramatic music with contrasting colors and hues, light, and shadows, environments change to parallel the inner monologue of the character.
© Ashley Garrett
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Barkin/Selissen Project
Body Cells
Barkin/Selissen Project, founded in 2009, combines nuance and explosive athleticism with choreography for live performance and film, that infuses fresh perspective on the complexities of human nature and mathematics alike. BSP has been presented at Jacob’s Pillow, 92Y, Bryant Park, National Math Festival, Boston’s Dance Complex, Yogyakarta-Indonesia, UferStudios-Berlin, the Edinburgh Fringe and others. Partnerships include Sally Taylor-ConSenses-Reggie Watts, Hartford Performs, Limón Professional Studies, SUNY Brockport and more. BSP receives funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, LMCC-DCLA, and Dance/NYC among others, and has been recognized by The Bessies, and OvationTV who aired a national PSA on BSP’s behalf. BARKINSELISSENPROJECT.org
© Cuong Huy Nguyen
Flexicurve
Out of the Shadows
Flexicurve is a New York-based multi-faceted dance company directed by Pascal Rekoert. Through exuberant and witty choreography, the audience engages in dialogues about social issues and values. Refusing to stay “inside the box,” Rekoert has created an exciting repertory that has been performed in theaters and dance spaces in the Tri-State area and has toured the US and Western Europe. Described as “magnetic and intricate,” Flexicurve is known for its high artistic standards and innovative movement vocabulary. Out of the Shadows is a collaborative dance film created with Z Collective and is inspired by Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
© Z Collective
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Taylor Graham
Here & Gone
Originally from New York, Taylor is a freelance dancer, choreographer and director. She has trained under the direction of international company artists from NDT, Batsheva, William Forsythe, Deborah Hay, Alonzo King Lines, Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot, and The YC. She has
performed solo work in NYC and in Europe, as well as with LA based dance company TL Collective. Recent achievements include a multitude of invitations to present work at film festivals, her film “Here & Gone” being chosen for the Berlin Independent Film Festival in 2022, and opening for the Martha Graham season at The Joyce Theatre (NYC) in October of 2021. Taylor was the Dance Artist in Residence at Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Firkin Crane, and Shawbrook in Ireland for 2020. She continues to make video work, research, and perform in NYC and LA.
© Peadar O Goill
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Flamencodanza Aylin Bayaz
Flamencodanza
An elegant show of contemporary Flamenco, premiered at the Avignon festival, France in 2021, by dancer Aylin Bayaz and guitarist Raúl Mannola. The duo show has been performed in several festivals from Australia and New Zealand, to Spain, Finland and France. With a trajectory of decades as a professional guitarist, Raul has an extensive discography of both traditional Flamenco and Flamenco-Jazz Fusión. Aylin holds an MA in Dance from the Institute of the Arts, Barcelona, 2018. Before that she trained in Flamenco at the Amor de Dios studios in Madrid. The contemporary Flamenco dance of Aylin is made of strength, elegance and delicacy. The show is a musical journey, a growth story via music and dance, where the character discovers a new path by overcoming obstacles.
© Laura Oja
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Romano Sekulovic
The Wait
Ramona Sekulovic is a US/German choreographer based in Berlin, Germany. Trained as a dancer and visual anthropologist, she currently strives to incorporate the experience and perception of her own body as well as its individual physical aesthetics into choreographic practice. She was presented by Gibney, Dixon Place, Green Space, Movement Research at Judson Church, and the SoloDuo Festival among others in NY, and by the Austin Dance Festival and the Chop Shop Contemporary Dance Festival in Bellevue nationally. Her newest filmic site specific creation, shot at the coast in Germany, will be part of this year’s Digital Dumbo Festival.
© Jim Coleman
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Kelly Guerrero
Coalesce (Excerpt)
Kelly Guerrero received her BFA in Dance from Montclair State University in 2022. Her work has been presented in ARTS By The People’s Across the Platform, the 2021 Hellbender Student Film Festival, iKADA Contemporary Dance Company’s Falling In Dance Festival, and at Montclair State University. Guerrero has performed in works by Stefanie Batten Bland, Martha Graham, Mark Harootian, Larry Keigwin, Fredrick Earl Mosley, Helen Pickett, Janice Rosario, and with the Sonia Plumb Dance Company. Her piece, Coalesce, explores how to move forward from mistakes. Her nine dancers contributed their interpretations of the concept and inspired movement themes throughout the work.
© Robert Cooper and Nir Arieli
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