AUDIENCE REVIEW: “Artists in Motion” Convene in Alison Cook Beatty Dance’s Fall Season

Female bodies orbit each other on the diagonal, driven towards destination unknown. Pulled yet again backwards, they float between lyrical and tumultuous phrases, riding on the…


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Skunks and Squirrels, Moths and Butterflies, and Ghosts

I returned to Riverside Church Theatre last Friday for a combined program by Infinity Dance Theater and Alison Cook Beatty Dance, and found that despite the considerable passage…


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Ghosts in the Machine

“Ghosts in the Machine,” choreographed by Kitty Lunn, director of Infinite Dance Theater, premiered last Friday, June 28th, at The Riverside Theatre in Riverside Church. The…


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How Integrated Campaigns Improve Fundraising Results

The biggest challenge for every nonprofit is ongoing fundraising and support and Cook-Beatty’s dance company is no different. As a company grows, each milestone reached also means…


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Ariel Rivka Dance & Guests: Childs Play, Adult Turmoil

Ariel Rivka Dance presented its annual New York season last week, inviting additional companies to join them on each night of the four-program run at the new Baruch Performing…


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Magnetic Temptations by Alison Cook Beatty Dance

I recently had the pleasure of revisiting an excerpt of Alison Cook Beatty’s newest work, Magnetic Temptations at the APAP Showcase at the Salvatore Capezio Theater at Peridance.…


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Alison Cook Beatty Dance shines at Peridance in 2018 Fall Season

Alison Cook-Beatty has choreographed a vast repertory of dances which explore the fundamentals of human life – relationships, nature, love, death, joy, anger, tragedy, and comedy…


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RAW: An Evening With Alison Cook Beatty Dance

I’m used to raucous, rumbling trains – especially in New York City. And when I attended RAW: An Evening With Alison Cook Beatty Dance at Milford Arts Council (MAC) in Milford, CT,…


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Alison Cook Beatty Dance Explores the Narrative Side of Modern Dance

Appropriately titled "Moving Stories," Alison Cook Beatty Dance's recent performance at the Salvatore Capezio Theater focused on how dance can express narratives drawn from…


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