There's a cool, seductive way an Alvin Ailey dancer takes the stage - a pantherlike walk with the chest held high, hips and shoulders rolling ever so slightly. It's one of the things choreographer Kyle Abraham loves about Ailey's style.
For more than three decades, taking in a performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater meant not only experienceing some of the best of the art form, but also seeing the work of one dancer: Renee Robinson. Now, she is taking her final bows.
As a girl, Washington native Renee Robinson, one of the most storied members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for over three decades, remembers traveling all over the city.
If there's a gala in Washington with a livelier dance floor than the annual Alvin Ailey after-party, Debra Lee, doesn't know of it. On Tuesday, Lee, president of Black Entertainment Television, will host her 11th gala to support Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Blue can represent a multitude of emotions: calm, contemplativeness, confidence and more. It's the color of water and the sky. When you think about it you can't help but imagine giant, expansive spaces. We've gathered together pieces in every shade of blue.
A conversation with Judith Jamison, director emerita of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and winner of the 2013 APAP Award of Merit, is not like taking a walk through American dance history. It is the walk through American dance History.
MTV has launched a new interactive, anti-slavery campaign inspired by a winning entry in its "Against Our Will" project on the college network, mtvU.
With great fanfare, Renee Robinson, a radiant dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, celebrated her final season with the company in December. It seemed that she was the toast of New York - there were farewell concerts, tributes and a prestigious Dance Magazine award.
Even if you haven't been to an Alvin Ailey performance, chances are you've seen Alicia Graf Mack: Her photos, with one leg reaaching skyward, is plastered on posters all over the city.
Variety is the spice of Ailey. As artistic director Robert Battle winds up his second season, he continues to broaden the repertory - making for programming where the choroegraphy is (almost) as good as the dancing.