Alison Cook Beatty Dance's 10th Anniversary Performance
Company:
ALISON COOK BEATTY DANCE
Alison Cook Beatty Dance, In collaboration with The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
10th Anniversary Performance at Ailey Citigroup Theater
We invite you back to the theater to join your fellow theater-goers, and Alison Cook Beatty Dance supporters to celebrate ten years of dance, enjoy new works and older favorites, and help usher in ten more years.
This performance is being made possible with the generous support of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Indie Space Fund, Pentacle Cash Advance Fund, and many generous individuals.
The program will consist of Alison's newest work, "Joyful Offering." Artistic Director Alison Cook-Beatty will perform "Touched By Fire," one of her earliest works to JS Bach's Prelude in G Major, which award-winning cellist Ms. Jisoo Ok will accompany. Two works choreographed in 2022, "One More Day," lyrics were written by Board President Gerald Appelstein in tribute to his late son Jason, performed by legendary singer Jeff Keller with award-winning musicians Polina Nazaykinskaya and Konstantin Soukhovetski. "Absurd Hereos," set to the music of David Lang, will be performed with visual artist Sean King's work and costume designer Larissa Shirley King.
We are honored to have guest artists from WHITE WAVE DANCE perform Alison's "Seele," a pas de trois with two women and one man. The Company will perform an excerpt of "Central Park Field #4," choreographed during the Pandemic on a baseball field in Central Park, in fashion designers Ali Tagahvi's iconic pinstriped costumes. "Lifeline," a classical duet choreographed in 2001, set to the music of Karl Jenkins, is also on the program and danced by guest artists Tara Bellardini and Amar Smalls. Alison Cook Beatty Dance alumni will perform alongside current core dancers Maddie, Genaro, Jacob, Madeline, Tom, Ioanna, Payton, and Mariah in the 1960s favorite "Houston Street Hootenanny." We hope you can join us for this special milestone performance. We are so grateful to have this opportunity to redo our performance.
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