WLRN - Imagining, Creating And Dancing With Alvin Ailey Dance Instructors
Jacoria Adams reads her homework aloud: “Dream, dream and believe. Dream, believe and dance to the beat.” Her poem is inspired by Alvin Ailey’s dance, “Night Creature.”
Jacoria Adams reads her homework aloud: “Dream, dream and believe. Dream, believe and dance to the beat.” Her poem is inspired by Alvin Ailey’s dance, “Night Creature.”
The famed dancers perform "Rock My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham" live from Times Square.
In his head, Miami native and professional dancer Jamar Roberts is two different people. One is the private person who lives in New York City.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater swoops back into the Adrienne Arsht Center this month for its annual engagement. The premiere dance company led by Miami's Robert Battle comes bearing gifts -- scholarships for local dancers to go to New York.
One of the most celebrated modern dance troupes, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, is back in South Florida at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami starting February 23rd. But Thursday, the premiere African American dance troupe went back to class to teach students at Charles R. Drew K-8 Magnet School of Visual and Performing Arts, a lesson in history and dance that got them out of their seats.
Ailey choreographer bases contemporary dance on King's words. Hope Boykin, long time member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returned to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in January, wondering if she'd have the same rendezvous with inspiration she'd had two years earlier.
We're toning up mind, body & soul with Kukuwa Fitness - a fun, high-energy workout blending together rhythms and movements from several regions in Africa with Wellness with Coach Cass!
We're live drumming to the rhythm of West African dance at Ailey Extension. Come learn instructor Yah Ya Kamate's dance moves!
When the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the fabulous Fox stage for their Atlanta engagement this week, fans will get a chance to experience the completed work of MacArthur "genius" Kyle Abraham.
The Alvin Ailey Dancers are poetry in motion, and some of their grace and power is from South Florida. Jamar Roberts is a shining star with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, but his dance career started here in SoFlo, where this dynamic dancer graduated from the New World School of the Arts.