Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater North American Tour will be coming to various cities throughout the country beginning in February.Contributor: Dachell McSweenPublished: Jan 06, 2010  

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has been a celebration of African-American culture and black dancers and choreographers who found few opportunities elsewhere to work. On a recent night at the City...  

After more than 20 years at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, director Judith Jamison is preparing to step down. In a profile by Jeffrey Brown, Jamison discusses how a mantra of "pray, prepare, ...  

Today's your last chance to catch the Judith Jamison-led company at the City Center. Tickets are from $25. For more information, call 212-581-1212 or visit www.nycitycenter.org. ...  

Ms. Jamison's tribute to Alvin Ailey is a choreographic tapestry featuring the entire Company while Smith as actress/raconteuse has gathered personal vignettes of the dancers and interspersed them throughout the work, creating a picture-biography of ...  

In today's times, a 20th anniversary of any sort is not to be taken lightly, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is giving due praise to the milestone of Judith Jamison's tenure as the company's artistic director in its current City Center ...  

Judith Jamison, the longtime artistic director of the acclaimed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, is now in her 20th season, following a distinguished career as a performer.  

The “Best of 20 Years” program presented as an homage featured a long series of excerpts from dances that Judith Jamison has commissioned, revived or acquired for the company.  

On Tuesday night “Ailey Highlights,” an excerpt-a-thon of works that was created last year for the dance theater’s 20th anniversary, returned to City Center.  

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Celebrates Its 50th With so much to celebrate in connection with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre’s 50th anniversary, it’s great news that New Yorkers get a second, very different opportunity to view the company this season. Its annual December City Center season is a longstanding tradition, but this is only the second time around for their on-the-eve-of-summer week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It...  

This spring Jamison steps down from the Ailey company's helm after 20 years of keeping her mentor's mission alive. "Alvin would have hated that word, 'mission.' It gets used because we've turned into an organization, so therefore we have a mission. I think vision is the word, because he was a vi-sion-ary."...  

NEW YORK, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Daniel Reichard, one of the original stars of Broadway's megahit JERSEY BOYS, returns to the New York City concert stage in his new show Daniel Reichard's Gettin' on the Good List at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater (405 West 55th Street).  

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Go HERE for more photos by Dylan Armajani and tag yourself and your friends! Wynton Marsalis, Andre Leon Talley, India.Arie, Jesse Jackson all attended the performance and gala for Alvin Ailey’s 20th Season Opening Night. [Photos by WILL RAGOZZINO for PMc].  All of the ridiculously limber and graceful dancers were dressed in Badgley Mischka gowns and Sean [...]  

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater” Members of the company in “Dancing Spirit,” a new work by Ronald K. Brown inspired by the Ailey’s longtime artistic director, Judith Jamison...