Alison Cook Beatty Dance is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dance company based in New York City. Founded in 2012, the company is a classically-based modern dance company exploring the universal human condition through expansive and emotionally-driven movement grounded in American modern dance while exploring new approaches to finding unique creative expression. The healing and transformational power of the arts inspire the company to work with diverse groups within the community and collaborate with other artists across multiple disciplines.
Alison Cook Beatty Dance has performed throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, California, Vermont, and Washington D.C., and continues its rehearsal, performance, and community outreach events for 2023. The company has performed at New York Live Arts, The Ailey Citigroup Theater, DUMBO Dance Festival, Dixon Place, Joe’s Pub, Jazz at Lincoln Center, GREENSPACE, the Salvatore Capezio Theater at Peridance, the 92nd Street Y, NYU Frederick Loewe Theater, The Riverside Theatre, Hudson Guild Theatre, The Making Moves Dance Festival, The Martha Graham Studio Theater, Pascal Rioult Dance Center, Abrons Arts Center, Playhouse Theater, The 14th Street Y, Battery Dance Festival, Hunter College, Dance Parade, Baruch Performing Arts Cente, Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, City Center Studios, GK Arts Center, Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, Ballet Hispanico, WEST HAMPTONS BEACH PROJECT, Arts On Site, White Plains Performing Arts Center, Florence Gould Hall, Duffy Theater at Mark Morris Dance Center, Goddard Riverside’s Bernie Wohl Center, and more in the New York City area.
In addition to the company’s New York-based performances, it has toured and performed at The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., San Jose State University in CA, and the Harvard Arts First Festival, Built On Stilts in Marthas Vineyard, Salam Arts Festival, MAGMA Arts, and Windhover Performing Arts Center in Massachusetts as well ad AS220 in Rhode Island. The Company has performed and taught in Vermont at the Putney School, St. Johnsbury Academy, and the Southern Vermont Dance Festival. In Connecticut, they have performed in Altar’d Spaces at Arts & Ideas Festival, The Hartford, CT Dance Festival, The Stamford, CT Dance Festival, the Palace Theater, the Hartt School, the Milford Fine Arts Center in Connecticut, as well as the Fairfield County Dance Festival performing in New Canaan, Bridgeport, Darien, Westport, Fairfield, and Milford. They recently have been presented by The Dragon’s Egg and Ted Thomas Ortiz Dance Company and supported by The New England Foundation for The Arts in a touring grant for New England 2023. The Company’s first performance was in New Jersey at MishMash2012, and they also performed at Nimbus Studio Theater and the International Dance Festival, KoDaFe in NYC 2022 in New Jersey.
Community outreach is at the core of the company’s mission. Alison Cook Beatty Dance has brought its energetic and creative performance approach through lectures/demonstrations to the Mary Manning Walsh Home for six consecutive years. The company shares how dance is created, rehearsed, and refined- all with full audience participation. Collaborations with local musicians who share this passion for outreach have helped make these events memorable for the residents. The Company has also performed and taught classes at The New Jewish Home, The Southern VT Dance Festival, The JCC of Staten Island, the Milford Fine Arts Center in CT, and I.S 10 Horace Greeley School in part of its way to give back to the community and share a dance with all.
The Company is proud of its work during the Pandemic, and three features on ABC News Channel 7 for the continued work throughout COVID-19. Notibilly for Ms. Cook-Beatty’s pieces “Central Park Field #4” and “Winter Wonderland,” as well as speaking out about mental health and raising awareness on Suicide Prevention and her work “One More Day,”; all featured on ABC News Channel 7. The Company was honored to receive multiple grant awards from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and others.