One of the world's premiere dance companies is preparing a winter season filled with new productions as well as fan favorites. For its 45th year, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's winter season kicks off in less than two weeks.
At age 12, Montclair's Chalvar Monteiro knew he could move really well. But when he went to see the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Company at NJPAC on Mother's Day, his life was transformed.
The Alvin Ailey company gets ready for one of its most exciting seasons yet. Richard Chen See is setting up for a rehearsal at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater studio.
Hot on the heels of Phildanco's performance last month at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, the venue opens its doors to another dance force not seen here in several years. Tonight, the Pittsburgh Dance Council will present Ailey II, the junior company of New York City's prestigious Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Students from The Ailey School pose with Oprah for the December 2015 cover of O Magazine.
Young dancers are carrying forward the legacy of iconic American choreographer Alvin Ailey, who died in 1989. He founded Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958 and, two years later, created his most celebrated work — “Revelations,” an exploration of the grief and “holiest joy” of the African-American experience performed to spirituals, gospel and holy blues.
New picture-book biographies recount the lives of the first computer programmer, an Alvin Ailey dancer and a blue-eyed singer from Hoboken named Frankie.
It's been an eventful year for the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. After the company's annual spring stand at Lincoln Center, it staged a string of summer performances in Paris at the Les Etes de la Danse International Dance Festival.
The inspiring new children's picture book My Story My Dance is based on the life of Robert Battle, the Artistic Director of the world renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is one of the most popular dance companies in the world, touring regularly to major theaters across the United States and internationally. But on Thursday, the company will have the largest audience in its half-century-plus history, appearing in over 600 U.S. movie theaters as part of the Lincoln Center at the Movies: Great American Dance series.