The Republican - Dance delights pupils
Springfield public school pupils screamed with delight at a performance yesterday by the Alvin Ailey Dance Company.
Smithsonian - 37 Under 36: America's Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences
Alicia J. Graf was waiting at the Alvin Ailey dance studio in Manhattan for the us to the airport. She was dressed in jeans and a soft gray sweater, her voluminous curls, usually worn loose, pulled back in a knot. She was clutching dozens of pages of a grueling tour schedule that would dictate the next 16 weeks of her life. First stop: Jackson, Mississippi, then several other cities in the South, a hop up to Chicago, finally winding down with shows in Boston and elsewhere in the Northeast.
New York Times - For the Best Views of This Performance, Stake Out a Sidewalk Spot
Pedestrians often stop to watch dance classes at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater building at 9th Avenue & 55th St.
The Washington Post - Alicia Graf, Rising to a Greater Height
Some of the best advice dancer Alicia Graf ever got came from her mother: Since you're tall, you'll always stand out, so you might as well be glorious. Maybe that's why at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performances at the Kennedy Center this week, Graf leaps and turns and extends her legs so high it's as if she's trying to play footsy with God.
New York Times - Ailey's Creative New Digs With Room for Comfort
In a well-known segment of Alvin Ailey's signature dance, ''Revelations,'' performed to the spiritual ''Wade in the Water,'' dancers wave swaths of billowy blue fabric to simulate a river.
Time Magazine - Back To Their Roots
The Ailey company's tour leaves South Africa dancing in the aisles.