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MANIFESTATIONS (2016)

Choreography: Alison Cook-Beatty
Music: Shaker Loops, John Adams
Costume Design: Courtesy of Marymount Manhattan College Dance Department
Performance Info: Eight dancers; 26 minutes and 40 seconds
Premiered at Milford Arts Council in Milford, CT

In the mid-19th century during the Era of Manifestations, 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.

Photo credit: Dariel Sneed and Morah Geist


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Alison Cook Beatty Dance is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dance company based in New York City. Founded in 2012,  the company is a classically-based modern dance company exploring the universal human condition through expansive and emotionally-driven movement grounded in American modern dance while exploring new approaches to finding unique creative expression.

We acknowledge the legal assistance we have received from Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and from the law firm of Sidley Austin LLP.

Alison Cook Beatty Dance is a recipient of coronavirus relief funding from Dance/NYC.

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The healing and transformational power of the arts inspire the company to work with diverse groups within the community, as well as collaborative efforts with other artists across multiple disciplines.

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