Companies in Residence

Companies in Residence: Summer Intensive

(14-19 years old)
By audition only

This two-week intensive is designed for the pre-professional dancer looking to train with 3 different, esteemed choreographers in a more intimate experience. Dancers will train with company directors and choreographers for 3 consecutive days in daily technique classes and repertoire rehearsals. Dance alongside professional company members and workshop new choreography. A total of 9 intense training days will culminate in a studio showing on Friday. This is a Summer Intensive you will not want to miss.
Dancers must have 3-5 years previous experience and audition is required.
Video submissions due May 25th, 2023
 

9:30am – 3:00pm
August 7th – August 18th
Tuition: $1045
Alison Cook Beatty Dance 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.
 
About the Company

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. 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.

Alison Cook Beatty Dance has performed throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, California, Vermont, Washington D.C., and continues its rehearsal, performance, and community outreach events for 2019. The company has performed at New York Live Arts, Ailey Citigroup Theater, DUMBO Dance Festival, Dixon Place, Joe’s Pub, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Salvatore Capezio Theater at Peridance, the 92nd Street Y, NYU Frederick Loewe Theater, The Riverside Theatre, The Martha Graham Studio Theater, The 14th Street Y, Battery Dance Festival, Hunter College, Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, City Center Studios, GK Arts Center, Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, and Ballet Hispanico.

In addition to the company’s New York-based performances, it has also toured and performed at The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., San Jose State University in CA, Harvard Arts First Festival in Massachusetts, and AS220 in Rhode Island. In Vermont, the Company has performed and taught at the Putney School, St. Johnsbury Academy, and the Southern Vermont Dance Festival. Altar’d Spaces at Arts & Ideas Festival, the Palace Theater, the Hartt School, and the Milford Fine Arts Center in Connecticut. The Company’s first performance was in New Jersey at MishMash201!

Community outreach is at the core of the company’s mission. Alison Cook Beatty Dance has brought its energetic and creative performance approach in the form of lecture/demonstrations to the Mary Manning Walsh Home for six consecutive years. The company shares how dance is created, rehearsed, and refined- all with full audience participation. Collaborations with local musicians who share this same passion for outreach have helped to make these events truly special for the residents. The Company has also performed and taught classes at The New Jewish Home, The Southern VT Dance Festival, The JCC of Staten Island, the Milford Fine Arts Center in CT, and I.S 10 Horace Greeley School in part of its way to give back to the community and share dance with all.

About Alison Cook Beatty

A New York-based choreographer Alison Cook-Beatty is the Artistic Director and serves as Executive Director of Alison Cook Beatty Dance, a New York-based non-profit modern dance company founded by her in 2012. The company explores the universal human condition through expansive and emotionally-driven movement grounded in American modern dance forms while exploring new approaches to finding unique creative expression. The healing and transformational power of the arts inspire the company to work with diverse groups within the community and collaborate with other artists across multiple disciplines. With high honors, Alison earned her BFA in Dance at the Boston Conservatory of Music at Berklee, receiving The Ruth Sandholm Ambrose Scholarship Award. She has primarily performed with the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2. Her work has most recently been commissioned by The Alvin Ailey School, Marymount Manhattan College, Steffi Nossen School of Dance, and NYSSSA. The Company has performed throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, California, Vermont, and Washington D.C., as well as universally online. Recent residencies have included The Goddard Community Arts Center in NYC and Windhover Performing Arts Center in MA. They look forward to a residence at Steffi Nossen School of Dance this August!
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.
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five two is a women-led dance collective that shares highly physical contemporary movement rooted in feminine perspectives. The company seeks to create expressive, legible work that inspires conversation, imagination, and reflection among all viewers. 
 
About Us
New York City based emerging dance artists, Olivia Passarelli and Sophie Gray-Gaillard, began collaborating in 2021 to form five two Dance Company. Olivia received her BFA in Dance from Montclair State University, and Sophie graduated with a double major in Neuroscience and Dance from Swarthmore College. Olivia has had her work performed at Alexander Kassar Theater, Dumbo Dance Festival, Boston Contemporary Dance Festival and was awarded 1st Place in Salt Contemporary Dance’s Shape Choreography Festival. Additionally, she received the Choreographic Excellence Award upon graduating from Montclair. Sophie has created and performed work in Philadelphia, New York City, and Melbourne, Australia, and she was awarded the Melvin B. Troy Prize for her choreography at Swarthmore College. five two’s work has been featured in both the 2021 and 2022 Steffi Nossen Dance Showcases, KoDaFe International Dance Festival, American Dance Guild Performance Festival, and in various showcases at Ailey Citigroup Theater, Mark Morris Dance Center, the Emelin Theater, Peridance’s KNJ Theater, Arts on Site, Triskelion Arts,  KYL/D’s Dance Center, Dixon Place, Green Space, i KADA Dance Center, and Balance Arts Center. The company premiered their first full work If ever at Studio 3R at Arts on Site. five two was awarded the Directors’ Choice Award at the Spring for Spring Dance Festival in Metuchen, NJ and presented a full-evening of their work at Mignolo Dance Center. Most recently, they were selected to be a part of the SharedSpace Program at Mark Morris Dance Group in 2023.
 

Sophie Gray-Gaillard Co-Artistic Director

Originally from Evanston, Illinois, Sophie Gray-Gaillard began her training at Dance Center Evanston at the age of three. She graduated from Swarthmore College with a double major in Neuroscience and Dance, and during the fall of 2018, she trained in the Victoria College of Arts’ BFA Dance Program in Melbourne, Australia. Sophie has had the privilege to perform works by Doug Varone, Florian Lochner and Alice Klock of FLOCK, Yuki Ishiguro, Olivia Sabee, Vivake Khamsingsavath, Chandra Moss-Thorne, and Amelia Estrada, among other talented artists. Additionally, she was selected to perform as a backup dancer for the feminist punk rock group, Pussy Riot. While overseas, she performed works by Rheannan Port and Rebecca Jensen and was selected to stage her original work, Throw Away, at the Strawberry Fields Music Festival in New South Wales, Australia. She has attended intensives at Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, Boston Ballet, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, Cambrians, Hubbard Street, Doug Varone and Dancers, and American Dance Festival. Sophie was awarded the 2020 Melvin B. Troy Prize in Dance for her choreography as well as multiple grants from the Department of Music and Dance at Swarthmore College. Currently, she is a member of Yu.S.Artistry and co-founder and co-director of five two Dance Company. In addition to dancing, Sophie works as a senior research technician at NYU School of Medicine and aspires to continue her careers in both fields.
 
Olivia Passarelli Co-Artistic Director

Olivia Passarelli of Fairfield, Connecticut, attended Montclair State University as part of the Honors Program and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2020, with a BFA in Dance Performance. While at Montclair, she has had the privilege of performing works by: Martha Graham, Bill T. Jones, Stacey Tookey, Joshua Manculich, Christian von Howard, Earl Mosely, Nancy Lushington, Jessica DiMauro, and others. Since graduating, she has performed with five two Dance Company, Yu.S.Artistry, Sonia Plumb Dance Company, and in various dance films. Passarelli has attended intensives at the Martha Graham School, Gallim, the Ailey School, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and the Paul Taylor School, where she is currently a scholarship student. She made her choreographic debut in 2019, and has since had her work performed at Alexander Kassar Theater, alongside Martha Graham and Ohad Naharin; along with being selected for ACDA. In 2020 had the honor of receiving the Choreographic Excellence Award as part of Montclair’s graduating class. In the past year, her work has been presented at the 20th Anniversary Dumbo Dance Festival, KoDaFe International Dance Film Festival, the Fertile Ground Showcase by Green Space, Post Future Performance Festival by Proteo Media, and Boston Contemporary Dance Festival. Most recently she was awarded 1st Place in Salt Contemporary Dance’s Shape Choreography Festival.

 

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About PROJECT 44
Established in 2010, PROJECT 44 is an all male dance company led by Gierre J Godley based in Queens, NY. With a visceral approach, the company strives to erase preconceived notions of the male performer. Since inception, PROJECT 44 has toured to numerous national venues (NYC, Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Arkansas, Chicago, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, and more) as well as international venues (Cuba, Madrid, Barcelona, Montreal, Manchester, Leicester, Berlin). The company also prides itself on community initiative efforts by way of its programming, T.E.A.M., The C Micheal Tidwell NEXT Scholarship, BANDChicago, and the NYC Youth Dance Festival.
 
About Gierre Godley
Gierre J Godley is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher living and working in NYC. He began his training in Arkansas under the direction of C. Michael Tidwell and Arleen Sugano, with additional studies at the Ailey School. Gierre holds a BS in Biology with a Dance Minor from Millikin University, and an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
 
In 2010, Gierre created PROJECT 44, an all male troupe dedicated to showcasing the beauty of male artistry. Gierre has received the NECF Choreography Award, Echo Choreography Award, and funding from the Queens Council on the Arts and the Peg Santvoord Foundation for PROJECT 44.
 
As an art advocate, Gierre has curated and adjudicated many regional festivals, granting cycles, and showcases. He is the Producer of T.E.A.M. (The Emerging Artists Meet-UP), a peer to peer networking group for emerging artists and MEN (Move-Experience-Network), a pre-professional and professional showcase geared towards uplifting male artists while encouraging connections with dance institutions. Gierre is currently on faculty at The College of Mount Saint Vincent, Suffolk County Community College, Connecticut Dance Center and is a performer in the NYC Bessie Award Winning show “Then She Fell.”

 

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Companies in Residence 2023 Application

 

Guidelines for audition videos:

Modern:
Please perform two exercises (put both in one “Modern” video). The Modern video should not exceed 2 minutes (it is not necessary to show both sides of a phrase).
-The first should be a floor warmup or phrase. This exercise should include key movements of the spine (contraction and release, spiral, side curve), showing musical clarity and spinal articulation.
-The second phrase can either be an across the floor combination or center combination. Please show level changes, use of dynamics, weight shift and stationary and locomotor movements.
Ballet:
Please perform two exercises (put both in one “Ballet” video). The Ballet video should not exceed 2 minutes (it is not necessary to show both sides of a phrase).
-The first Ballet exercise should be an adagio. This exercise should reflect technical clarity, musicality, strength and performance quality.
-The second Ballet exercise should be a petit allegro. Pick a phrase that shows clarity and strength in footwork and clear musicality

Anyone can dance and Everyone should! – Steffi Nossen

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