IN THE FOREST BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH (2021)

Stage 1 Premiered Virtually on June 30, 2021

Story: Alison Cook-Beatty, Anne Catherine de Mare, Shem Guibbory
Music: Second Violin Sonata, Béla Bartók –
performed by Susan Sobolewski, Piano. Shem Guibbory, Violin.
Dramaturg & Projection: Anne Catherine de Mare
Choreographer: Alison Cook-Beatty
Grieving Twin: Fiona Oba
Fallen Twin: Vera Paganin
Owl / Sorceress: Charles Scheland
Guardians of The Forest: Richard Sayama and Ricardo Barrett
Eyes Of The Forest: Isa Braun, Mary Puart, Laura Espitia, Holly Hwang, Ioanna Ioannides,
Miranda Runyon, Daisy Morales, Olivia Passarelli, and Miranda Stuck
Understudy to Owl / Sorcerer: Miranda Stuck
Costumes: Ali Taghavi
Film: Ellen Maynard
Camera Assistant / Second Camera: Jerry Aquino
The creative process of both Virtual and Stage work of IN THE FOREST BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH was supported in part by the New York Department of Cultural Affairs.

Stage 2
Premiered at Abrons Arts Center in the Fall of 2021

additional credits to the above Stage 1:
Dramaturg and Projections: Anne Catherine de Mare
Lighting Design: Tony Marques

Special thanks to Ms. Olga Berest of the Berest Dance Center, Pastor Arden Strasser of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church NYC, Sacred Spaces NYC, Niccolò Orsolani, Fiona Oba, Ricardo G. Barrett, Richard Sayama, Charles Scheland, Miranda Stuck, Isa Braun, Mary Puart, Laura Espitia, Holly Hwang, Daisy Morales, Olivia Passarelli, Emma Gerstein, Robert Sutherland, Gerald Appelstein, Jennifer DeLeonardo, Thomson Reuters, Russell Davis, Ellen and Ed Beatty, John Alexander, Charles and Deborah Adelman, Marshall Feiring Esq., Gregory Ho, Melinda Krasting, Cliff Brody, National Performing Arts Funding Exchange, Michael Normandy, YourCause Global Good Network, Dr. Nicholas Beatty, Daniel and Christine Cook, and The Heidtke Foundation.