Ailey II embarks on a 31-city world tour from September 17th through March 28th with 24 domestic cities including Kansas City, MO; Baton Rouge, LA; Columbia, SC; Memphis, TN; and Birmingham, AL. The international portion of Ailey II's tour takes the dancers to Poland, Germany, Luxembourg, France, and Canada.
The first visit to South American led by Artistic Director Robert Battle incudes engagements in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at Cidade das Artes from September 11-15, Sao Paulo, Brazil at Credicard Hall from September 19-22, and Buenos Aires, Argentina at Teatro Coliseo from September 26-29.
Artistic Director Robert Battle continues to expand the Company’s diverse repertory with premieres and new productions representing a wide range of important choreographic voices giving Ailey’s extraordinary group of artists new ways to inspire audiences.
Artistic Director Robert Battle continues to expand the Company's diverse repertory with premieres and new productions representing a wide range of important choreographic voices that give Ailey's extraordinary group of artists new ways to inspire audiences.
AileyCamp, the innovative full-scholarship day camp celebrating its 25th year, will provide life-changing and meaninful experiences to students in eight cities across the United States this summer. This inspiring program uses the art of dance as a means to stretch the mind, body, and spirit of approximately 800 inner-city students.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Artistic Director Robert Battle has announced casting for the Company's return to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts at the David H. Koch Theater from June 12-16, 2013. He has also invited three new dancers to join and perform with the acclaimed 30 member Company during the seven-performance engagement.
For the first time ever, the world-renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will be joined by rising stars of Ailey II, gifted young dancers from The Ailey School, and talented students from AileyCamp in a spectacular Ailey At The Apollo performacne on Tuesday, May 7th at 7pm.
The Ailey organization is proud to continue its mission of using dance to educate, inspire and enlighten people of all ages through the implementation on Revelations: An Interdisciplinary Approach, the week before Arsht Center performances led by Artistic Director Robert Battle, a Miami native.
Today, Artistic Director Robert Battle announces that Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will present a seven-performance engagement at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater from June 12th to 16th, 2013. Ailey's acclaimed dancers will perform a diverse repertory featuring a world premiere by the celebrated dance maker Ronald K. Brown, along with encores of this season's premieres and repertory favorites, including Alvin Ailey's American masterpiece Revelations.
The Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation today announced that after an international search to identify a new Executive Director, the Board of Trustees has chosen to continue the Ailey tradition of passing on leadership from one generation of the organization to the next by naming Bennett Rink to the post.