HOPE ASHORE (2021)

HOPE ASHORE (stage 1)
Choreography: Alison Cook-Beatty
Music: Peter Gabriel – Don’t Give Up (Featuring Kate Bush)
Dancers: Sasha Rydlizky and Nika Antuanette
Videographers: Evan LoFranco and Jeremy Cone
Film Editor: Alison Cook-Beatty

HOPE ASHORE 2022 (stage 2)
Choreography: Alison Cook-Beatty
Music: Peter Gabriel – Don’t Give Up (Featuring Kate Bush)
Dancers in Stage 1: Sasha Rydlizky and Nika Antuanette
Videographers for Stage 1: Evan LoFranco and Jeremy Cone
Film Editor for stage 1: Alison Cook-Beatty

Prop Design: Larissa Shirley King
Stage 2 has 2 dancers and is 8 min long
Stage 2 premiered at Dixon Place in 2022

“In January 2021 I choreographed “Hope Ashore” on Zoom on dancers, Nika Antuanette and Sasha Rydlizky, who were residing on different coasts. I wanted to send a message of hope, in a bottle. A year later, as the Pandemic continued, I restaged the dance film for stage. Dancers Maddie Burnett and Madeline Kuhlke performed the same choreography as the film played on stage with them. I would like to thank all of the artists involved in both stages of this work. I’m happy “Hope Ashore” has a place on stage as well as a site-specific dance film so we can continue to share this message of hope with people. Since the beginning of the Pandemic to now, with Russians criminal invasion on Ukraine, people need hope more than ever!” – Alison Cook-Beatty, Artistic Director of Alison Cook Beatty Dance