Dance Teacher Magazine - Dance Teacher Notes
Ailey II dancers Ghrai DeVore and Renaldo Gardner, both 19, received scholarships from the Dizzy Feet Foundation. They will train at The Ailey School.
Ailey II dancers Ghrai DeVore and Renaldo Gardner, both 19, received scholarships from the Dizzy Feet Foundation. They will train at The Ailey School.
Participants in the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater residency at Santa Ana High School demonstrate their talents as dancers and choreographers on Thursday, February 4th. This week-long program is run by Alvin Ailey and underwritten by J.P. Morgan/Chase.
Judith Jamison has accomplished so much in two decades as artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, that she had to ask her office to fax a fact sheet to her hotel, during a Washington tour stop, so she could be reminded of it all before an interview.
Judith Jamison’s home is on the stage. It is there where she has captured the hearts of audiences around the world and astonished them with her beauty and grace.
In a special ceremony tonight at The Kennedy Center, Judith Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, will donate her costume from the 1975 ballet, The Mooche, to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
"We're about to twirl your socks," Judith Jamison, artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, announced to the Kennedy Center Opera House audience on Tuesday from the stage, flashing a grin to dazzle the upper tier. "All right?"
"You ever play an old record that just made you feel good about everything?" Judith Jamison asked. "These times make me feel very good about the work I'm doing."
For Judith Jamison, returning to the Kennedy Center each year with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater feels like a homecoming, with the company's connections to Washington stretching back decades.
When you're a young dancer, talent is no guarantee for success: You need to mix it with passion and a lot of hard work.
A group of Ailey students clad in the black-on-black modern dress code moves like a well-oiled machine through Lester Horton's Fortification #1.