Judith Jamison, a renowned performer and choreographer who devoted most of her dance career to the trailblazing Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, has died. Jamison died Saturday after a brief ...
Alvin Ailey was a choreographer who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958 at just 27 years old. Ailey choreographed over 100 ballets and was known to showcase the many experiences of ...
Sixty-four years after the premiere of its signature work “Revelations,” Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has introduced a piece choreographed by interim artistic director Matthew Rushing that ...
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to wow local audiences with the Chicago premieres of Hope Boykin’s “Finding Free,” Matthew Rushing’s “Sacred Songs” and Lar Lubovitch’s “Many Angels.” Plus, ...
Maija García’s “Jazz Island” is a full-company narrative of a kind that Ailey hasn’t done in a while. And it features an Afro-Caribbean score by Etienne Charles. By Brian Seibert It can feel ...
Music, live performance, film, photography, sculpture and painting combine in Edges of Ailey at the Whitney Museum — an exhibition as eclectic as the works of legendary choreographer and dancer Alvin ...
The Board of Trustees of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation today announced that Robert Battle, Artistic Director of Ailey since 2011, has informed them that he needs to focus on his health and has ...
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Ailey Moves NYC! is the centerpiece of a summer of free Ailey programming, which also includes Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s participation in the BAAND Together Dance Festival at Lincoln Center ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The performance portion of “Edges of Ailey” at the Whitney Museum of American Art was best when it stepped away from tradition. By ...