Denise Jefferson, an internationally known dance educator who as the longtime director of the Ailey School oversaw the training of generations of world-class performers, died on Saturday in Manhattan.
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.
A boy in a tutu. That was the image Lee Hall saw in his mind's eye when he began the original screenplay for "Billy Elliot," the tale of a striking coal miner's son who crashes the gates of the Royal Ballet School in London.
This week Alvin AIley American Dance Theater returns to BAM for its longest engagement there to date.
Mary Lou Williams, the jazz pianist, arranger and composer, said that the first time she saw Alvin Ailey's work, "I went out of my mind, and I don't do that often."
New York--Guillermo Asca, bailarin de origen peruano, triunfa en los escenarios y cumple 16 anos con la compania de danza Alvin Ailey.
Usually when you’re watching second companies perform you anticipate small mess-ups: slips, nervousness, unclean pirouettes, lack of confidence. However, this was far from the truth with Ailey II at the Joyce Theater.
Life is a dance with all of us dancers. We find ourselves leaping with joy and swaying with sorrow.
Hometown boy, Jamar Roberts, returns home to Alvin Ailey as one of the star dancers of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.