The Seattle Times - Celebrating the Return of Alvin Ailey and Revelations to Seattle
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater visits Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre on March 25-27, celebrating the 50th anniversary of "Revelations" and bringing new works.
Arts In Education
NY City Center Playbill - City Center Opens the Door to Dance
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performed 39 times in December to enthusiastic packed houses at New York City Center, but there was a special quality to the cheering with which an equally large - but significantly younger - audience responded one Thursday morning during the season.
Encore Atlanta - In Celebration of Revelations An American Dance Classic Turns 50
Few dance companies carry the worldwide name recognition of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. And even fewer dance works boast the influential artistic legacy of Ailey's Revelations, which the New York TImes hailed as "modern dance's unquestionable greatest hit."
Dance Magazine - Learning a Legacy
At 1:45 P.M. at Bea Fuller Rogers Middle School in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood, high-pitched laughter, chatter, and screams reverberate through the hallways. But inside a small dance studio on the second floor, the atmosphere is different. Two dozen seventh-graders stand silently in a wedge formation, an inverted triangle with one student at the point.
The New Yorker - Washington Postcard: East Room Recital
"We could hear you, a little bit, upstairs," Michelle Obama said, one day last month, to the eighty children pulling down their leotard elastics over their small rear ends in the East Room of the White House. When she walked onstage, what looked like eighty children took pictures of her with their cell phones.
Amsterdam News - For AileyCamp Kids, Dance Also Builds Character
Recently, some 80 younsters from 11 to 14 years old burst onstage at Columbia University's Miller Theatre for a delightful performance showcasing the skills acquired during a six-week intensive training at the AileyCamp.
Associated Press - Michelle Obama Hosts First White House Dance Event
In the end, it was a wonder the three massive chandeliers gracing the White House East Room remained intact, given the high-voltage expenditure of human engery taking place beneath them.
Miami New Times - AileyCamp Gives At-Risk Youth a Stage and a Microphone
Nietzsche declared, "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." It's doubtful that the existential philosopher anticipated chaos giving birth to Dancing With the Stars, where B-listers tango for more fame. It's more likely that he would have been down with the kind of dancing stars at this weekend's Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation's AileyCamp performance.
Point of View - Ailey Dancer Comes Home to Give Back
“Now is your time to shine. Here we go, 5, 6…. 5, 6, 7, 8!” and with that Yusha-Marie Sorzano sends her AileyCamp Miami student dancers flying. They are preparing for the AileyCamp final performance in three weeks, and Yusha has them dancing fast and fierce – just as she has done on stages across the globe.
Dreams Within Reach
On her first day at AileyCamp last year, a 13-year-old named Mary Quintana kept her eyes down and her mouth shut.