Alison Cook Beatty Dance
Presenting “LACRIMIS”
Choreography by Alison Cook Beatty

Alison Cook Beatty Dance is a classically-based non-profit modern dance company exploring the universal human condition through expansive and emotionally-driven movement founded in 2012. While grounded in American modern dance, the Company constantly strives for new approaches to unique and creative expression including a commitment to diversity and inclusion in programming.

Website: alisoncookbeattydance.org ; Instagram: @alisoncookbeattydance
Photographer: Lucas Chilczuk

Unspoken Dance
Presenting “Time Soothes All Sorrows”
Choreography by Darrigan DeMattos

Darrigan DeMattos is a distinguished dancer and choreographer who graduated from The Hartt School, University of Hartford, with a BFA in Dance Performance. She has performed works by renowned choreographers such as José Limón, George Balanchine, and Stephen Pier. Darrigan’s extensive performance experience includes collaborations with Awaken Dance Theater, Linda Diamond & Co., The END Ensemble, and One Day Dance.

Instagram: @rotten_demattos
Photographer: Jack Desormier

Fast Forward is made possible, in part, with private funds from the Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the NY State Legislature.