Sure enough, someone hit the chandelier. You want to avoid it when you're dancing in the East Room of the White House, but as the many dancers who have had the distinction of leaping and spinning there can attest, it can take tricky choreography to ensure that airborne bodies don't graze the low-hanging crystal.
Judith Jamison’s home is on the stage. It is there where she has captured the hearts of audiences around the world and astonished them with her beauty and grace.
In a special ceremony tonight at The Kennedy Center, Judith Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, will donate her costume from the 1975 ballet, The Mooche, to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) City Center season, which runs from December 2 to January 3, is hot, hot, hot.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater opened its season with a gala at the New York City Center, followed by a dinner for 1,200 guests at the Hilton.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Opening Night Gala 2009 was fun. Honorary Chairs and Honored Guests were Pauletta and Denzel Washington.
Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater School, Denise Jefferson and Dr. Jill Biden watch dancers rehearse at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, The Joan Weill Center for Dance on October 19, 2009 in New York City.
Dancers from the Alvin Ailey School of Dance will be among the first to wear gowns from Badgley Mischka's new line Mark & James.
The Obamas drop by the Kennedy Center in DC last night for a performance of New York's renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
It was intermission at the 50th Anniversary Gala for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. As two friends in black tie passed each other on the Kennedy Center red carpet one said to the other, “Well, is change keeping you busy?” The other answered brightly, “Yes, exhaustingly and beautifully so.”