I have always found it physically impossible to be still if there is music playing. Doctors today might diagnose me with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and that's fine. Just hold the Ritalin and put me on the stage!
Contemporary dance innovator, Alvin Ailey, believed that "dance is for everybody," and was particularly passionate about providing underserved youth with the tools they needed to express themselves and develop a greater sense of self-esteem.
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.
When a school is a training ground for a company, its performances offer an interesting opportunity to see the way technique and performance styles are forged. On Wednesday night the Alvin AIley School presented its Spring Celebration Concert at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, and the senior students who too pride of place were remarkable for the ardent sincerity of their demeanor as well as the excellence of their dancing.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is on the brink of a major transition while at the top of its game, judging from its terrific opening this week at the Auditorium Theatre, where Wednesday marked the troupe's 140th performance at that venue.
A celebration of the power and beauty of dance will be spotlighted when Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater takes the stage today through May 22 at The Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. The troupe's current production will feature six Chicago premieres.
The charisma, technicality, and athleticism of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater sets the group apart from other contemporaries. Works such as the masterpiece "Revelations" invoke a fiery, cisceral reaction in the audience.