ALISON COOK BEATTY DANCE
Alison Cook-Beatty attended the Boston Conservatory of Music at Berklee where she earned a BFA in Dance with high honors and was the selected recipient of the Ruth Sandholm Ambrose Scholarship Award and the Jan Veen Scholarship. She moved to New York City and danced with the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2, among other dance companies. In 2012, Ms. Cook-Beatty founded ALISON COOK BEATTY DANCE, a classically based modern dance company, based in New York City, whose mission is to create and share accessible and emotionally engaging dance for all. She has been commissioned by companies including Ballet Next, Carolina Ballet Theatre, The Joffrey Ballet School, The Boston Conservatory of Music at Berklee, Steffi Nossen School of Dance, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, New York University, and Marymount Manhattan College. She was awarded the 2013 sjDANCEco Award for Artistic Merit. Under her direction, the Company has grown into an artistically reputable and productive 501(c)(3) nonprofit dance company with local impact and international esteem. The company has performed throughout the United States, has been featured on ABC News for its prolific and creative efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic, and was awarded grant support from Dance/NYC’s Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund, the New York Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council of The Arts. The Company is approaching its exciting ten-year anniversary with new works and performances slated for New York premiere.
Artistic Vision For Alison Cook Beatty Dance, the purpose of art is to connect human beings more deeply to themselves and to one another. The Company remains proudly oriented by traditional techniques of American modern dance, which serve as a shared language between modern dancers worldwide. At the same time, the Company values artistic risk and the exquisitely unexpected. Alison Cook Beatty Dance finds true grace in work that is emotionally honest and challenges both dancers and audiences through mutual vulnerability.