Dance Spirit - His & Hers Exercises
Want to work muscles all over your body? Try an airplane with a single-leg squat. This exercise will help both guys and girls improve balance while toning outer thigh, hip, arm and chest muscles.
Want to work muscles all over your body? Try an airplane with a single-leg squat. This exercise will help both guys and girls improve balance while toning outer thigh, hip, arm and chest muscles.
Meet Renaldo Gardener, the "baby" of the Ailey II bunch--the dozen strong dance troupe poised to transform the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts stage into a fantasia of bodily movement Friday night.
"I was youngish," says Sylvia Waters of the time, in 1968, when she joined Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. "You can see that I'm trying not to be too specific," she jokes, speaking on a cell from a coffee shop in New York City.
A striking dancer amid the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's array of prodigious talent, Hope Boykin is notable for her feisty intensity, muscular power - and sleek pate.
The climax of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 50th-anniversary season, which has emphasized live music, has arrived in the middle of its run, with two programs whose first two-thirds are each to music by Duke Ellington.
Glenn Allen Sims epitomizes Alvin Ailey mission.
Here’s my daydream. I’m walking along 8th Street and meet the ghost of Alvin Ailey. He looks gorgeous—just the way he did when I ran into him over 30 years ago in the same place. “Alvin,” I say, “did you know that on the opening night of your company’s 50th anniversary season—in honor of it—the top part of the Empire State Building was bathed in gold light?”
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrated its opening night at the New York City Center, followed by a dinner for nearly 1,300 guests at the Sheraton New York. The event raised $2.92 million.
Alvin Ailey started his company with a handfull of dancers and the idea of incorporating jazz, blues and gospel into his unique repertoire.
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater scorns doing things by half measures. Wednesday night’s gala opening of its five-week season at the City Center, celebrating its 50th anniversary, pulled out all the stops.