Now celebrating its Fifth Anniversary Season, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation proudly announce the return of AileyCamp Miami for the third consecutive year, June 27-August 5, 2011.
AileyCamp, a full-scholarship summer day camp with classes in dance technique for urban students, will be in Newark this summer. The six-week program, from July 5 to Aug. 12 at the Newark Arts High School, will be held for 100 Newark middle-school students from 11 to 14 years old.
Tyrone Aiken, Executive Director of the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, announces the opening of AileyCamp's 23rd year in Missouri on Monday, June 20. AileyCamp is an innovative six-week, summer dance camp for middle-school boys and girls.
AileyCamp, a full-scholarship summer day camp with classes in dance technique for urban students, will come to Newark this summer. The announcement was made by officials at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Newark public schools and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
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.
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.
“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.
On her first day at AileyCamp last year, a 13-year-old named Mary Quintana kept her eyes down and her mouth shut.
On her first day at AileyCamp last year, a 13-year-old named Mary Quintana kept her eyes down and her mouth shut.
The speakers behind the green sofa and love seat in the sunny living room of Rosa Cruz’s Washington Heights apartment were silent as Ms. Cruz’s 10-year-old granddaughter, Maria Cruz de Leon, shyly danced.