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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Alvin Ailey's 'Revelations'. Photo by Paul Kolnik.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater offers virtual season this December

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, known for uplifting and uniting audiences across the globe with messages of hope, will offer a free...

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Fall for Dance Festival makes a digital return

The 17th annual Fall for Dance Festival is offering its first-ever digital dance celebration this October, with the performances being filmed live on...

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Top NYC companies lead dance community with #NYCDANCEUNITES voting initiative

Five of New York City’s acclaimed dance companies – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of...

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Dance Studio Owner

Lincoln Center Activate for educators and arts leaders

From July 21-24, Lincoln Center will offer Lincoln Center Activate, a new professional development initiative and digital reimagination of the annual Summer...

AileyDance for Active Seniors at Carnegie East House. Photo by Nicole Tintle.

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Dance Health

AileyDance for Active Seniors: Dance from and back to the people

“Dance came from the people and should always be delivered back to the people,” Alvin Ailey said. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, a key...

Michelle Fleet, from Paul Taylor Dance Company.

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Axelrod PAC launches summer Performing Arts Academy online

New Jersey’s Axelrod Performing Arts Center (APAC) announces the launch of the Axelrod Performing Arts Academy (APAA) beginning Monday, June 29. Curated...

New York City Ballet in 'Coppélia'. Photo by Susanne Faulkner Stevens.

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts brings Dance Week into our home

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) has announced a week devoted to dance from May 30-June 4. Part of Lincoln Center at...

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Ailey All Access free online initiative brings dance to the people

The Alvin organization announced that health concerns related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will prevent Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s presentation of...

Olivia Bevilacqua at YAGP 2019 Final Round. Photo by VAM Productions.

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Youth America Grand Prix moves digital

Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) has announced a new Virtual Scholarship Program. The world’s largest ballet scholarship competition will continue its mission to...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Photo by Andrew Eccles.

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Reviews

Moving through different worlds, in one world: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

New York City Center, New York, NY. December 6, 2019. Sophisticated, thoughtful dance art — and programming of its presentation — can take...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Jamar Roberts. Photo by Andrew Eccles.

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Interviews

Digging up the bones of dance: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Jamar Roberts

It doesn’t take long into a conversation with Jamar Roberts to get a sense of who he is — passionate, curious and...

'Education' by Z Artists Group. Photo by Wallace Flores.

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Dancers Demand Action Benefit Concert: A tapestry of American dance

The Joyce Theater, New York, NY. November 11, 2019. For such a young nation, relatively speaking, America has an impressive dance heritage —...

New York Dance Project. Photo by Bill Prouty.

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New York Dance Project: Creating opportunity

New York Dance Project (NYDP), a new dance company in its third year of existence, is a small but mighty enterprise. Its...

AAADTs Jacqueline Green and Solomon Dumas in Ronald K. Brown's 'The Call'. Photo by Paul Kolnik.

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Dancing meaning and motivation

Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY. June 15, 2019. In dancemaking, there’s the meaning of the work at hand (the...

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Dance Health

The SAFE® Method: Spirals and patterns for recovery, artistry and more

Formal dance training includes much about patterns in the body: the sequential arcs of port de bras, common step sequences such as...

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Darrell Grand Moultrie’s premiere with Ailey: Sharing movement and way more

A tendu is a tendu, a jeté is a jeté, and a pirouette is a pirouette. When does movement go beyond that...

Laurel Lawson as Venus is flying in the air with arms spread wide, wheels spinning, and supported by Alice Sheppard as Andromeda who is lifting from the ground below. They are making eye contact and smiling. Photo by Jay Newman / BRITT Festival.

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Disability arts leader Laurel Lawson is Dance/USA Artist Fellow

Laurel Lawson, an Atlanta-based activist, disability arts leader, dancer and technologist recently received an inaugural Dance/USA Artist Fellowship. The select group includes...