Los Angeles awaits a spectacular production, as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will grace the stage celebrating 50 years of Ailey's praised piece "Revelations," beginning in April. Hosted in the 2010-11 season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center, these 10 performances are highly anticipated.
Since its formation in 1958, New York's Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has played a pivotal role in pushing and transforming the boundaries of modern dance, particularly in the United States. But as a child Yannick Lebrun of French Guiana didn't know that history.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, past and future, irradiated the stage of Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall on Tuesday evening when the company launched its annual Cal Performances residency, a relationship that stretches back over four decades and give no sign of ending, despite a change in artistic leadership next season.
On its final tour with artistic director Judith Jamison, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performed its signature piece, "Revelations," as well as strong new work at the 5th Avenue Theatre.
During a performance of the famed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, principal dancer Renee Robinson wants the audience to feel "this is the only place in the world I want to be."
One of the world's great dnace companies is coming to Vancouver to perform one of the great works of modern dance. For the first time in 18 years, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will be taking the stage at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for three performances Friday and Saturday plus a dress rehearsal performance for students on Friday morning.
Clifton Brown shares little in common with Alvin Ailey, the late legendary American dancer whose namesake company he now works for. Yes, both are African-Americans. Both are dancers of supreme athliticism. But beyond that, their backgrounds couldn't be more different.
The air was filled with anticipation last Saturday afternoon as the near-capacity audience filed into the Academy of Music for the first of three weekend performances by the world-renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Seeming effortless, the stand-out newcomer of New York's Alvin Ailey Dance troupe transitions from one flow of motion to the next, as if transforming suddenly into an insect, a machine, a bird taking lfight, a shaman leading an ancient tribal mating dance, or a spaceman attempting communication in some ritualistic nonverbal language of the future.
Ever since Judith Jamison announced that she would end her 21-year tenure as artistic director of the world-renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, anybody who is remotely moved by dance has looked forward to her final appearance in Philadelphia.