November 1, 2024
Artists in Motion: Eclectic Lyricism
This program proved to be one of the best I’ve seen in terms of execution by the dancers and accessibility to any audience. There were many excerpts from…
September 12, 2024
Embracing Hope Through Dance: ECHOES OF WAR by Alison Cook Beatty Dance
As we prepare to present our latest works in TAKE ROOT 2024, I’m particularly honored to share one piece close to my heart: ECHOES OF WAR. The inspiration for…
October 20, 2023
Gen Hope: A Dancer’s Reflection
For many years, I have grappled with a sense that dance, my life’s work and utmost passion, exists within a sphere of privilege that is detached from the…
March 13, 2023
Life Moves: My journey through Echoes of War
The choreography was by Alison Cook-Beatty, created for her New York company, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, which I have been a member of since 2021.
March 13, 2023
Alison Cook Beatty Dance: Their Cup Runneth Over
The impact on the heart and soul of a particular performance or program can, at rare times, be inspirational. So it was with Monday night’s twice-delayed 10th…
February 11, 2023
2023 SOLODUO FESTIVAL
Maddie Burnett and Madeline Kuhlke of the New York based Alison Cooke Beatty Dance Company, presented Song of Thunder, a luscious duet.
November 7, 2022
Alison Cook Beatty Dance: Yea, though I walk …
Alison Cook Beatty Dance, a relatively young, small company that I have reviewed several times previously, was supposed to celebrate its 10th Anniversary with…
June 6, 2022
Alison Cook Beatty Dance in ‘Artists in Motion Mini 2022’: The drama of music and movement
In Artists in Motion Mini 2022, New York City-based Alison Cook Beatty Dance showed a particular affinity for creating the drama of music and movement in…
June 6, 2022
AUDIENCE REVIEW: Alison Cook Beatty Dance spreads hope
“Hope Ashore,” from New York-based contemporary company, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, explores the idea of connection, telling the story of two people on either…
March 16, 2022
Alison Cook Beatty Dance and Guests: Artists in Motion Mini
With the pandemic now, hopefully, over, many dance companies are presenting work that was already in the planning stages, if not substantially completed,…
February 11, 2022
Artists in Motion Mini 2022
Alison Cook Beatty Dance is thrilled to announce its 10th New York City Season, Artists In Motion Mini, this March 12th, 2022 at the KnJ Theater at Peridance…
June 25, 2021
The Westhampton Beach Project Announces a Night of Music, Ballet and Modern Dance
NEW YORK, NY – The Westhampton Beach Project is the 3rd annual free to the public event that brings a combination of music, ballet and modern dance. The…
April 24, 2021
Welcome New Dancers April 2021
The pandemic has brought major change to all our lives, families, and work. We've all been impacted and have met the challenges head-on, often with unexpected…
March 2, 2021
‘Baseball Ballet’ performers keep dancing during COVID-19 pandemic
HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- In June of 2020, we told you about a dance company that turned a Central Park ball field into a studio in the middle of the…
December 9, 2020
Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Dancer’s Reflections on Dancing through COVID-19
Flashbulb memories. These are the moments in history that everyone crystalizes in time and place- the moon landing, JFK’s assassination, 9/11- And perhaps now,…
November 22, 2020
The Crayons of the Company
As a collective, we are like a rainbow of colorful crayons, which is way more interesting than a box full of the same color. I ran with this idea and started…
November 10, 2020
Letter from the Editor: The Resilience of Dancers, The State of Enthusiasm, and a New Initiative: Moving Visions
Jacqulyn Buglisi’s annual pageant for peace, Table of Silence, went from a ritual including hundreds of dancers to ten. But those ten moved with mountains of…
October 3, 2020
Alison Cook Beatty Dance Steps Up to the Plate (Medium)
A New York-based modern company gathers New York spirits in Central Park.
September 21, 2020
Manhattan Dancers Perform on a Diamond (NY1)
Members of the Alison Cook Beatty Dance Company have been rehearsing on baseball diamonds.
July 23, 2020
Updated Virtual Class Schedule with Alison Cook Beatty Dance
We are so excited to be able to offer FREE half-hour virtual classes open to dancers and non-dancers alike. Classes will be offered on our Instagram account…
July 1, 2020
Alison Cook Beatty On Creating Window Dances & Rehearsing On Baseball Fields
the company’s expansive and emotionally-driven movement explores new approaches to finding unique creative expression—recently, this has included rehearsing…
June 16, 2020
Ballet dancers perform on empty ballfields during COVID-19
Lauren Glassberg from abc7ny reports on Alison Cook-Beatty, who came up with the idea of teaching ballet on baseball fields in Central Park.
April 10, 2020
Dance Process Gallery: From My Window to Yours
From My Window to Yours is a working title of a Work In Progress based around the COVID-19 pandemic. I gathered the dancers for their first virtual rehearsal.…
April 10, 2020
Looking Ahead to Autumn: Artists in Motion 2020
We are moving forward with our fall programming at this time, including opening up the application for our own Artists in Motion 2020 season at the Salvatore…
March 28, 2020
Announcing New Virtual Classes with Alison Cook Beatty Dance
We are so excited to be able to offer FREE half-hour virtual classes open to dancers and non-dancers alike. Classes will be offered on our Instagram account…
November 16, 2019
Messages In Time
In this collaborative work we aspire to reveal some of the inner stories we hear in the Preludes of Shostakovich and Auerbach. The dancers embody people very…
November 6, 2019
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…
July 7, 2019
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…
July 4, 2019
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…
June 3, 2019
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…
April 18, 2019
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…
January 23, 2019
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…
November 6, 2018
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,…
August 21, 2018
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…
June 22, 2018
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…
June 22, 2018
In the Studio with Alison Cook Beatty
READart’s Heather Zises sat down with Alison Cook Beatty to discuss her recent showcase, Moving Stories: An Evening with Alison Cook Beatty Dance at Peridance…
November 15, 2017
From Concept to Production: An Evening with Alison Cook Beatty Dance
On November 3 and 4, 2017, Alison Cook Beatty Dance Company presented a limited engagement performance From Concept to Production: An Evening with Alison Cook…
November 12, 2017
An Inferno in its Own Right
If any critic is a proponent for the relevance of American Modern Dance in 2017, it would certainly be me. Modern Dance is undeniably communicative of human…
November 7, 2017
Performance at Ballet Hispánico Touches the Audience to the Core
Alison Cook Beatty Dance’s latest performance showcase, “From Concept to Production: An Evening with Alison Cook Beatty Dance,” was successfully presented to a…
October 28, 2017
MODERN DANCE DEMONSTRATION BRINGS JOY TO SENIORS
For the fifth year in a row, Alison Cook Beatty Dance brought the sheer joy of movement and music to more than 50 residents at the Mary Manning Walsh Home, a…
October 5, 2017
CLASSES WITH ALISON COOK BEATTY DANCE
NOV 7 2017- NOV 21 2017 (3 weeks) Tuesdays 9am-10am Core Synergy with Alison Cook-Beatty Tuesdays 10am-12pm Modern/Contemporary Class
September 24, 2017
FROM CONCEPT TO PRODUCTION: AN EVENING WITH ALISON COOK BEATTY DANCE, NOV. 3RD AND 4TH
From Concept to Production: An evening with Alison Cook Beatty Dance will begin at 7PM with a reception of free drinks and hors d’oeuvre. Art work and…
July 24, 2017
ALTAR’D SPACES PERFORMANCE: JUNE 10, 2017
Alison Cook Beatty Dance, a New York-based contemporary dance company, will perform an exciting hour-long program of dance including four unique works that are…
March 29, 2017
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES: MAY 20, 2017 – NEW WORK PREMIERE
Alison Cook Beatty Dance will perform a WORLD PREMIERE (Untitled) and MURMURATION featuring the music of Ottorino Respighi in an hour-long program. The…
March 29, 2017
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES: APRIL 30, 2017 – MAHAWAY
Alison Cook Beatty Dance, joined by guest artists of the New York City dance community, musical ensemble group Tenth Intervention, and composer Dorian Wallace,…
January 31, 2016
MURMURATION – ALISON COOK BEATTY DANCE
The 2016 premiere Murmuration by choreographer Alison Cook-Beatty, performed by her company Alison Cook Beatty Dance, imaginatively offers vignettes of daily…
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