Usually when you’re watching second companies perform you anticipate small mess-ups: slips, nervousness, unclean pirouettes, lack of confidence. However, this was far from the truth with Ailey II at the Joyce Theater.
Life is a dance with all of us dancers. We find ourselves leaping with joy and swaying with sorrow.
Hometown boy, Jamar Roberts, returns home to Alvin Ailey as one of the star dancers of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
"It's been a blink," Tina Monica Williams says, marveling at the fact that she just celebrated her 10th anniversary as a dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
On the road and out of town for many months of the year, ABT II, Ailey II, and Taylor 2 perform a signal service for the arts by bringing live dance to cities and schools across the U.S.
As a young boy, Glenn Allen Sims was more interested in singing than dancing. Then his school hired a new dance teacher.
International star and celebrated dance icon Renee Robinson credits her nearly three decades of experience with the Alvin Ailey Theater Company for helping stretch her in myriad ways.
In the professional dancer's life, which is always circumscribed by the realities of aging, a sustained injury strikes some performers as a death sentence.
Dancer Matthew Rushing has been with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater since 1992, but he has only recently started spreading his wings as a choreographer.
Her propulsive leaps across the stage could symbolize Constance Stamatiou's fast-rising career.