Gala Artists

Click below to learn more about the artists and works that will be featured in our Gala on March 24th, 2022 at White Plains Performing Arts Center in White Plains, New York.

Jessica DiMauro Marks, Artistic Director and alumna of Steffi Nossen, is a choregrapher and teacher in the greater NY area who focuses on the artistic expression of the human experience. Her dance company, DiMauro Dance, will be presenting the work “Love, Kisses and Such…” which was created 20 years ago to reveal the physical experience of emotional neglect. The Company reinvigorates this solo through the lens of this unique time in human history.

Learn more about DiMauro Dance here.

Annie Doss began teaching at Steffi Nossen in 2006. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Marymount Manhattan College, studied at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and is currently pursuing her MS in Movement Therapy at Pratt University.  A Steffi Nossen alumna with many performing credits, Ms. Doss has also presented her own choreography at the Theresa Lang and Red Room Theaters, Dance Theatre Workshop (DTW), SUNY Purchase, and Peridance Center. She is a founding member of DiMauro Dance and a Certified Pilates Instructor. In addition to her role as faculty member and choreographer at Steffi Nossen School of Dance, Ms. Doss is also a member of the Faculty at Trapeze School New York.Selected as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch in 2020,” Hannah Garner will be debuting a brand new work choreographed on the Steffi Nossen Dance Company. Hannah’s work has been commissioned by GroundWorks DanceTheater, Kizuna Dance, the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, The Wassaic Project, A-Y/Dancers, as well as musical artists like Half Waif and Frankie Cosmos. 2nd Best productions have been presented through Gibney Dance, GALLIM, Arts by the People, Mark Morris Dance Group, The Ace Hotel, Triskelion Arts/Muriel Schulman Theater, Friends Seminary, Dixon Place, The Wassaic Project, WOW Cafè Theatre for The New York International Fringe Festival, and Chen Dance Center.

Selected as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch in 2020,” Hannah Garner will be debuting a brand new work choreographed on the Steffi Nossen Dance Company. Hannah’s work has been commissioned by GroundWorks DanceTheater, Kizuna Dance, the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, The Wassaic Project, A-Y/Dancers, as well as musical artists like Half Waif and Frankie Cosmos. 2nd Best productions have been presented through Gibney Dance, GALLIM, Arts by the People, Mark Morris Dance Group, The Ace Hotel, Triskelion Arts/Muriel Schulman Theater, Friends Seminary, Dixon Place, The Wassaic Project, WOW Cafè Theatre for The New York International Fringe Festival, and Chen Dance Center. Learn more about Hanna Garner here. 

CRDANCE COMPANY takes choreography beyond stage-based performance to map new ideas onto the history of dance. Known for its visceral use of movement, this Italian and American dance company was founded in 2007 by Artistic Director, Caterina Rago. CRDANCE COMPANY will present LABIR INTO (excerpt) performed by our very own Steffi Nossen Dance Company. The New York Times called LABIR INTO  a work that “speaks to how we navigate our interior dead ends and false turns on the unclear path to self-awareness.”

Learn more about Caterina Rago here. 

Alison Cook-Beatty received her BFA from the Boston Conservatory of Music at Berklee, receiving the Ruth Sandholm Ambrose Scholarship Award with high honors. She moved to New York City and danced with the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2. In 2012, Ms. Cook-Beatty founded ALISON COOK BEATTY DANCE, a classically-based modern dance company whose mission is to make dance accessible and emotionally engaging for all.

Learn more about Alison Cook-Beatty Dance here.