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PBS One On One - Empowering Social Justice Through the Arts

PBS One On One - Empowering Social Justice Through the Arts

Steve Adubato talks with Robert Battle, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Artistic Director about Alvin Ailey’s extraordinary legacy, past and present forces that inspire Mr. Battle, and the ability of the arts to empower social justice.

Dance Teacher - Ronni Favors’ Tips for Teaching Long, Extended Lines

Dance Teacher - Ronni Favors’ Tips for Teaching Long, Extended Lines

Odds are, your dance students’ Instagram feeds are filled with images of professionals showing off their 180- degree penchés or demonstrating their highest extensions. It’s enough for a student to come to equate the length of their lines with the quality of their dancing—after all, dancers so often hear “long lines” as something to strive for.

ABC 7 - Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Returns To Lincoln Center

ABC 7 - Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Returns To Lincoln Center

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is returning to Lincoln Center. The six-performance engagement will cap a decade under the leadership of artistic director Robert Battle. He joined Sandra Bookman to discuss the season opener and his 10th year anniversary program, which features his choreography set to the music of some of the greats, like Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder and others.

Harper's Bazaar - Jon Batiste and Alicia Graf Mack Want the Truth

Harper's Bazaar - Jon Batiste and Alicia Graf Mack Want the Truth

In 2018, Alicia Graf Mack joined the Juilliard School as director of the conservatory’s dance department, the first woman of color to lead the division. During her tenure, the school has done away with gendered ballet classes and expanded the canon of music taught in its history and theory courses to include more works by composers of color.

San Francisco Chronicle - Review: Classic ‘Revelations’ Feeds The Soul As Alvin Ailey Company Returns To Cal Performances

San Francisco Chronicle - Review: Classic ‘Revelations’ Feeds The Soul As Alvin Ailey Company Returns To Cal Performances

Alvin Ailey’s “Revelations” is back in the flesh — and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is dancing it as rousingly as ever. If you’ve never seen “Revelations,” or haven’t gotten a dose in a few years, make haste to the Ailey company’s current run at UC Berkeley’s Cal Performances, where this eternal and indestructible 1960 classic is slated to cap every program (there are five of them) on offer through Sunday, April 3. And brace yourself; as one longtime fan was heard telling a newcomer on opening night Thursday, March 29, “You’re about to go to church.”

NYC Media Barefeet in NYC - Black Voices

NYC Media Barefeet in NYC - Black Voices

Season 5: Ep. 1: Mickela Mallozzi kicks off this new season of Bare Feet celebrating black voices in the arts by dancing with Virginia Johnson and the renowned Dance Theatre of Harlem, along with Misty Copeland and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater! She drums and dances with the Brooklyn United Marching Band, celebrating Juneteenth with Black-owned small business owners, restaurants, and festivals throughout the city!

The Atlanta Journal Constitution - Alvin Ailey Troupe Returns To The Fox

The Atlanta Journal Constitution - Alvin Ailey Troupe Returns To The Fox

Instinct rather than intention guided Robert Battle, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, when he choreographed the image of dancer Renaldo Maurice, a Black man, draped in the American flag. Battle had envisioned his piece, “For Four,” as a light opener to a jazz score capturing the pandemic’s pent-up energies. But at some level, Battle said, he needed to respond to the murder of George Floyd and “these fragile times in our democracy.”

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