The Alvin Ailey Dancers are poetry in motion, and some of their grace and power is from South Florida. Jamar Roberts is a shining star with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, but his dance career started here in SoFlo, where this dynamic dancer graduated from the New World School of the Arts.
Pity Ella Fitzgerald's sidemen, keeping up with a voice that could soar, skim and leap like some kind of winged creature. Only the most predatory reflexes could content with her improvisations.
If you've hit a rut in your New Year's resolution to lose weight, we've got an inspiring story to help you get moving! The name Alvin Ailey is usually associated with dance performances, not fitness routines, until now!
Hope Boykin, long-time member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returned to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in January, wondering if she’d have the same rendezvous with inspiration she’d had two years earlier. She’d just taught a master class at the museum, part of the Ailey company’s new Destination Dance initiative to offer year-round local programming in partnership with several Atlanta cultural organizations.
Solomon Dumas talks being bitten by the dance bug and his journey in joining the "graceful athletes" of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Rachael McLaren, Yannick Lebrun and Jacqueline Green performed the “Wade in the Water” section of Revelations to promote the national tour.
For 17 years, the North Carolina native has been giving us the ‘theatrical experience’ that has made the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater one of the most celebrated dance companies in the world. If you’ve ever seen Hope Boykin dance onstage, you’ve witnessed modern dance at its finest.
In this Parenting report, NY1 Parenting Consultant Shelley Goldberg takes you to the Alvin Ailey Dance Studio to learn all about their dance classes for novices.
When Hope Boykin last visited WABE, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater veteran was starring as Odetta, the woman often referred to as "the voice of the Civil Rights movement," in a world premiere piece by Matthew Rushing. Now, as Boykin prepares to return to Atlanta, she’s bringing a work of her own to the Fox Theatre’s stage.
Judith Jamison is the Former Artistic Director Emerita of Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. Yesterday would have been Alvin Ailey, the founder of Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, 86th birthday. To celebrate his legacy, Ms. Jamison taught a Ailey Classics Workshop at the Ailey Extension.