Topic: Alvin Ailey

February issue

Washingtonian.com - 20 days ago
Volume 47, Number 5 Medical marijuana is coming to DC. But the drug is already a much bigger part of life for people here than you might...

Five things to do this week: Jan. 28-Feb. 3

Posted Toronto - 20 days ago
Andrew Eccles. Catch the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre company, renowned in the world of contemporary dance, when they are in the city briefly...

Ailey Foundation Director To Step Down After 16 Years

ArtsJournal - 21 days ago
"Since taking the reins in 1995, Sharon Gersten Luckman racked up a list of accomplishments that have made the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater...

Best (and worst) Dance of 2011

Time Out New York - 22 days ago
THE BEST Sarah Michelson Devotion is an act. In an art form with few rewards, faith isn't just a loose term in dance, it's what draws you back to...

What The Game's Been Missing: Bodyroll Music

Soul Bounce - 28 days ago
The BodyRoll, defined by Urban Dictionary as "a dance move in which the entire body goes through a wavelike motion focusing on the hips," goes hand...

Black celebrities who died of AIDS: We remember you

The Grio - 76 days ago
Black celebrities who have died of AIDS sometimes do not receive the attention that others lost to this terrible disease do. TheGrio wants to say:...

Warm but relentless

San Francisco Chronicle - 196 days ago
0 . On the vast stage of UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall, rows of middle-school children are standing in vaguely organized lines. They're trying hard...

Alvin Ailey dancers open U.S. festival in Moscow

Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News - 232 days ago
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Alvin Ailey dance company, with its roots in the U.S. civil rights movement, opened the American Seasons festival in Moscow this week, electrifying audiences with a 50-year anniversary performance of its seminal, emotionally charged ballet "Revelations."After a ...

Staying power in the arts

San Francisco Chronicle - 308 days ago
0 View Larger Image . Still here and thriving like never before, two enduring American dance institutions dominate Bay Area stages this week. The...

Alvin Ailey: A Dance Artist of His Time

Canadian Voices - 334 days ago
* After seeing Revelations at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Friday evening, it's easy to see why Alvin Ailey felt he was dogged by its success for...