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The Boston Globe - An Uplifting ‘Odetta’ From Alvin Ailey

The Boston Globe - An Uplifting ‘Odetta’ From Alvin Ailey

We can always count on Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to be lively, colorful, and entertaining. But Thursday’s opening night Celebrity Series performance was that and much more, offering Ailey’s rousing “Revelations” on a slate with the Boston premiere of Matthew Rushing’s stirring new “Odetta” and Israeli-born Hofesh Shechter’s provocative “Uprising,” which is having its company premiere this season.

Los Angeles Times - Timeless And Timely

Los Angeles Times - Timeless And Timely

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 'Odetta' was inspired by 2009 memorial service for the singer Hope Boykin on Odetta Holmes: 'Odetta gave a song to you exactly how she knew you needed to hear it' The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. anointed Odetta Holmes 'the queen of American folk music'

ABC7 - Here And Now

ABC7 - Here And Now

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's new season with Artistic Director Robert Battle and choreographer Matthew Rushing.

The Kansas City Star - Ailey Offers Ode to Odetta

The Kansas City Star - Ailey Offers Ode to Odetta

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is marking thing year's 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act with Matthew Rushing's "Odetta," a new piece honoring folksinger and civil rights activist Odetta Holmes.

The Times 100

The Times 100

On the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater pays tribute to Odetta Holmes, the prodigious folk singer and soulful voice of social justice, with a timely new work by the Ailey dancer Matthew Rushing.

The New York Times - A Tribute Evening, But With No Goodbye At The End

The New York Times - A Tribute Evening, But With No Goodbye At The End

"Sometimes we like to celebrate people while they are still agile," said Robert Battle, the artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at City Center on Tuesday. He was explaining that although the evening's program celebrating the dancer Matthew Rushing was the kind of event usually given to a retiring artist, Mr. Rushing is not retiring yet.

Associated Press - Ailey's Rushing, Front And Center After 2 Decades

Associated Press - Ailey's Rushing, Front And Center After 2 Decades

When Matthew Rushing was a young boy growing up in Inglewood, Calif., his mother was concerned he might fall prey to the gang violence that plagued the area. So she signed him up for an afterschool arts program. It kept the boy off the streets, but also did something his mother could never have predicted: It propelled him into a love affair with dance, a passion that's led him to the very pinnacle of the art form.

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