Dancing in the woods

July 25, 2023 4:30 pm • Last Updated: July 25, 2023 7:40 pm

By Sarah Gordon
Staff Photographer

Members of Alison Cook Beatty Dance perform their modern dance piece “Murmuration” for visitors at the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center in Mystic on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. The company has been traveling through New England with the piece through a grant from the the New England Foundation for the Arts. “We’ve been traveling around, kind of like the birds that inspired this dance,” said director and choreographer Alison Cook Beatty. (Sarah Gordon/The Day))
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Mystic ― Members of Alison Cook Beatty Dance performed their modern dance piece “Murmuration” for visitors at the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center on Tuesday.

Choreographer Alison Cook Beatty was inspired by the movements of starlings that gather in flocks (called murmurations) when she worked on the piece a few years ago.

The company is currently in residence at The Dragon's Egg studio in Mystic and has been traveling throughout New England with the piece through a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts.

“We’ve been traveling around, kind of like the birds that inspired this dance,” said Cook Beatty. They have performed the piece locally at the the La Grua Center, the nature center and The Dragon’s Egg.

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