ALTAR’D SPACES PERFORMANCE: JUNE 10, 2017

For Immediate Release
Published: May 25th, 2017

Press Contact:
 Alison Cook-Beatty
Artistic Director, Alison Cook Beatty Dance
Phone: (917) 409-7773
Email: acbdance@gmail.com www.alisoncookbeattydance.org
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ALISON COOK BEATTY DANCE AND THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS PRESENTS:

ALTAR’d Spaces: ALISON COOK BEATTY DANCE
Saturday, June 10th, 2017 at 6:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m.
Tickets: $10.00 General Admission
First and Summerfield United Methodist Church
425 College Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Tickets can be purchased: www.alisoncookbeattydance.org, or http://www.artidea.org/alison-cook-beatty-dance

Alison Cook Beatty Dance, a New York-based contemporary dance company, will perform an exciting hour-long program of dance including four unique works that are sure to interest and entertain all comers.

The first dance, Inishlacken, is an uplifting fast-paced dance with music by Bill Whelan and 6 dancers in stunning white and black costumes performing an Irish-history themed dance of hardship, hope, and community.

The second and third dances are duets: Lifeline is a romantic yet complex duet set to music by Karl Jenkins about a couple driven together by desire and pulled apart by outside forces, while Tintinnabuli is a powerful dance inspired by the tintinnabulum, or bell, set to music by Arvo Pärt, which premiered at The Joyce Theater in 2012.

The final dance is the joyous Murmuration, set to music by Ottorino Respighi and premiered at the Theater at the 14th Street Y in NYC in 2016, and highlights the tale of the beautiful aerial ballet of the starlings.

For a complete list of Festival 2017 events visit artidea.org/Festival

About Alison Cook Beatty Dance:

Alison Cook Beatty Dance, founded in 2012, is a classically based modern dance
company exploring the universal human condition through expansive and emotionally driven movement grounded in American modern dance. The healing and transformational power of the arts inspires the company to work with diverse groups within the community, in addition to collaborative efforts with other artists. Under the artistic direction of Alison Cook-Beatty, her choreography has been commissioned by professional companies and universities such as Ballet Next for its Joyce Theater season, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, and The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. The company has toured throughout the United States. Locally, the company has performed at New York Live Arts, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Salvatore Capezio Theater at Peridance, the 92nd Street Y, The Martha Graham Studio Theater, The Theater at The 14th Street Y, Battery Dance Festival, and Gibney Dance POP Performance Series, and other performance venues.