Alvin Ailey was a choreographer who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958 at just 27 years old. Ailey choreographed over 100 ballets and was known to showcase the many experiences of ...

Judith Jamison, a renowned performer and choreographer who devoted most of her dance career to the trailblazing Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, has died. Jamison died Saturday after a brief ...

Ailey, who grew up dirt poor in Texas, the son of a nomadic single mother, became not only one of the more significant choreographers of the 20th century but a man synonymous with Black dance in ...

Before his death in 1989 at the age of 58, choreographer and modern-dance giant Alvin Ailey accomplished many groundbreaking, boundary-busting things. He helped establish modern dance as a popular art ...

When Ailey opens, the late Cicely Tyson comes into focus, standing glorious and regal on stage at the Kennedy Center for the Arts honoring the famed dancer and choreographer. Even then, at the tail ...

On Dec. 3, the theater’s 2025-26 season kicked off with a festive Opening Night Gala, complete with a moving performance and ...

Anyone who has studied theater and dance will know the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and its founder. Not only did Ailey form a dance movement, but his company also became a pioneering force for ...

Memory was the anchor of famed choreographer Alvin Ailey’s work, the fuel behind the joy and restraint in his massively successful fusion of Black culture, theater and modern dance in the 20th century ...

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to wow local audiences with the Chicago premieres of Hope Boykin’s “Finding Free,” Matthew Rushing’s “Sacred Songs” and Lar Lubovitch’s “Many Angels.” Plus, ...

It can feel overwhelming to watch a dance. But if you follow the hands, they can unlock the mysteries of a moving body. By Gia Kourlas The performance portion of “Edges of Ailey” at the Whitney Museum ...

Sixty-four years after the premiere of its signature work “Revelations,” Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has introduced a piece choreographed by interim artistic director Matthew Rushing that ...