Core to the mission of Alison Cook Beatty Dance and their believe in community outreach, the arts being accessible to all and bringing people together, the company is honored to have visited The Mary Manning Walsh Home and The New Jewish Home these past six years. Bringing our work to the senior populations in ways of performances, lecture demonstrations, and participatory work creates joy and meaning for us and the audience.

Alison Cook Beatty Dance company brought exciting, enthusiastic, highly professional, and simply excellent modern dance to our residents at Mary Manning Walsh Home. The fantastic interactive performance, melding the fine craft of the artists with the energy and excitement of young professionals making new, good, art, was absolutely electric. The residents were completely mesmerized and engaged, showing their appreciation by actively participating in the interactive elements and, finally, with rousing applause that belied the median age in the audience. Alison Cook Beatty dance company provided us with a jolt of life and proved to all that the appreciation of good, new art can bridge generations.

Everybody really appreciated the performance today,” said Maribel Cortez, personal aid to several of the residents at Mary Manning. She has seen all of the five lecture-demonstrations by Alison Cook Beatty Dance and looked forward to each visit. “The dance made me full of life and energy. I really appreciate how the dancers smiled at each other, how they moved their legs and laid down on the floor and got back up and how they were so well coordinated and never got tired!” Her client nodded in agreement. Ms. Cortez said that the event was the highlight of the day for the residents and some of them were waiting in the cafeteria for the dancers’ arrival from 10 a.m. “They really like being involved. They get more energy and more spirit from this, and it really helps them focus,” she said. “Everybody is waiting for you to come back again!