Choreography: Alison Cook-Beatty
Music: Shaker Loops, John Adams
Costume Design: Courtesy of Marymount Manhattan College Dance Department
Performance Info: Eight dancers; 26 minutes and 40 seconds
Premiered at Milford Arts Council in Milford, CT
In the mid-19th century during the Era of Manifestations, the Shaking Quakers were thriving in New York, holding strong to their utopian vision of communal living, celibacy, and isolationism. For those in love, it was a dystopia.
Photo credit: Dariel Sneed and Morah Geist