The critically acclaimed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater company makes a historic return to South Africa for the first time in 17 years. Not only will they be performing two spectacular programmes in Johannesburg and Cape Town throughout September, they are also engaging local organizations and aspirant dancers with outreach programmes.
A day before the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater begin the South African leg of their international tour, the company's dancers taught a master class in Johannesburg's historic Soweto township on Wednesday. The dance company last visited South Africa 17 years ago, soon after the end of apartheid.
Eight professional dancers discuss the offstage interested that help them recharge.
She started dancing at the age of three and that was only because her mother went to a Target store and picked out a ballet outfit just to see how her toddler would look in it. For Courtney Celeste Spears, it's like she never took off the leotard.
Dancers showed off their skills during their end-of-camp performance in the Bronx. After six weeks of practicing, more than 100 campers from the Alvin Ailey Dance Camp performed at the Hostos Community Theater.
Courtney Celeste Spears - Every year, the Princess Grace Foundation honors a few lucky members of the arts community. Getting a Princess Grace Award (which comes with a generous grant) is like joining one of the most elite clubs around—a club that includes David Hallberg, Tiler Peck, Mike Minery, Gillian Murphy, Kyle Abraham, Drew Jacoby and Isabella Bolyston.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will present the first world premiere from Robert Battle since he became the company’s artistic director. That premiere is part of the troupe’s coming season, which will include two other premieres, of Kyle Abraham’s “Untitled America: First Movement” and Ronald K. Brown’s “Open Door.” The season runs Dec. 2 through Jan. 3 at City Center.
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Dozens of local middle-schoolers took center stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center Saturday as the seventh AileyCamp Miami drew to a rousing close. After six weeks of hard work trying to nail every little step, these young dancers had to battle those butterflies in the stomach, but they conceded the show must go on.
One of the nation's most celebrated dance companies, Alvin Ailey, is running a summer camp in Manhattan. As NY1's Lindsey Christ found out, AileyCamp, as it's called, is about more than dance.