Turning Points
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater held its own version of a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Wednesday to officially inaugurate the opening of its Joan Weill Center for Dance.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater held its own version of a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Wednesday to officially inaugurate the opening of its Joan Weill Center for Dance.
On March 1, the Ailey company is officially opening up its big new building: the Joan Weill Center for Dance. There will be much fanfare and many tributes--as there have been already.
The actual distance of the move is not far--six blocks south, one and a half blocks east--but as the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation takes up residence in its gleaming new eight-story home, what the move represents is momentous.
In a well-known segment of Alvin Ailey's signature dance, ''Revelations,'' performed to the spiritual ''Wade in the Water,'' dancers wave swaths of billowy blue fabric to simulate a river.
The largest building in America devoted entirely to dance will open in midtown Manhattan in the fall, a steel and glass treasury of hard-to-come-by luxuries.
Students from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater had just a few blocks to cover yesterday to get from their current home on West 61st Street in Manhattan to the groundbaking ceremonies for a new $54 million center at 55th Street and 9th Avenue. How else to get there but dance?
Innovator and artist, Denise Jefferson, is leading The Ailey School to the forefront of dance education with wisdom and grace.
Ten years after taking over the American Dance Theater, Judith Jamison -- Alvin Ailey's astonishing muse -- celebrates with a Kennedy Center Honor.
Tears were the first bond. They glistened on Judith Jamison's face as she stood beside an elderly woman veteran of South Africa's liberation struggle.
The Ailey company's tour leaves South Africa dancing in the aisles.