Alison Cook Beatty Dance to Present Four Works This Month

Alison Cook Beatty Dance will perform four pieces in a 75 minute program, including one brief pause and one intermission.

LIFELINE is a duet inspired by a couple's love withstanding time and conflict. It features a female dancer in a white dress partnering with a male dancer in white, with a minimalistic set, set to music by Karl Jenkins in three varying sections over 8 minutes. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."- Aristotle

PATIENCE IMPATIENCE commissioned by Columbia Ballet Collaborative features three dancers performing to an original composition composed by Allan Greene, inspired by a poem written by the choreographer titled East River Banks. With long black ropes and weighted anchors, with three barefoot dancers seeking balance amidst the tugging of ropes, this is one of the company's more prop-centric dances addressing loss, fortitude, patience, impatience, rigidity, and resilience.

BECOMING ANOTHER features eight dancers in hand painted skin tone unitards representing a couple in different stages of their lives together, dancing as partners. It includes a thematic film of letter writing and charcoal sketches that coincides with the score by composer Dr. Young Mi Ha, inspired by the Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain.

MANIFESTATIONS features eight spirited dancers in a mid-19th century inspired work, during the Era of Manifestations, when the Shaking Quakers were thriving in New York, holding strong to their utopian vision of communal living, celibacy, and isolationism. For those in love, it was a dystopia. It is set to John Adam's Shaker Loops.

About Alison Cook Beatty Dance:

Alison Cook Beatty Dance was founded in 2012 in New York City, exploring the universal human condition through expansive and emotionally driven movement grounded in American modern dance. The healing and transformational power of the arts inspires the Company to work with diverse groups within the community, in addition to collaborative efforts with other artists. Alison Cook Beatty Dance has performed throughout the United States including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, California, Vermont, and Washington D.C., and continues its rehearsal, performance, and community outreach events for 2016. The company has been awarded grants from the Milford Fine Arts Council of Connecticut, New Haven Fine Arts Council of Connecticut, the Putney School in Vermont, and Assets for Artists.

About Gibney Dance POP Series:

Gibney Dance, founded in 1991, is a trailblazing organization whose mission is to bring the possibility of movement where it otherwise would not exist. Through three interrelated fields of action-Center, Company, and Community Action-Gibney Dance is "Making Space for Dance" in studios, on stages, and in underserved shelters and schools. POP: Performance Opportunity Project, provides the dance community with increased support for showings and performances. POP Performances are held in the intimate 116 seat black-box theater at Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center.

ALISON COOK BEATTY DANCE

4 Works/ 75 Min.

POP: Performance Opportunity Project Series.

In Partnership with Gibney Dance

November 17th, 18th, and 19th at 8:00 PM

Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door. For students: $12 in advance, $17 at the door, groups of 8 or more $12 per ticket.

Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center

280 Broadway (entrance at 53A Chambers) New York, NY 10007

Tickets can be purchased on the Gibney Dance website (gibneydance.org/calendar/2016-11/), by calling the box office at 646.837.6809 or at this link: https://gibneydance.org/performance/pop/alison-cook-beatty-dance/

For those ticket holders in attendance Thursday through Saturday, Alison Cook Beatty Dance will be hosting a gathering at a nearby bar/restaurant on Saturday, November 19th, after the performance. Details will be shared at each performance.

*Photo credit Russell Haydn