As stage lights cast a sunny glow across the stage and the spiritual “Rocka My Soul in the
Bosom of Abraham” booms through the theatre, 22 dancers array across the proscenium�…

As stage lights cast a sunny glow across the stage and the spiritual “Rocka My Soul in the
Bosom of Abraham” booms through the theatre, 22 dancers array across the proscenium�…

In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial
company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other�…

Abstract The works of Alvin Ailey have been largely overlooked by musicologists interested
in studying the intersections between music and dance. This is true despite his�…

Throughout the history of the United States, there have been many critical times associated
with racism. When other forms of crisis overlap the existing ones–as the Covid-19 pandemic�…

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs a diverse repertory of modern dance
works. The demands of a diverse repertory are not invisible, however, and the Ailey�…

This study investigates the role of Modern Dance as a medium of United States cultural
diplomacy during the Cold War era, with reference to the Alvin Ailey American Dance�…

LEAD: Alvin Ailey was at the peak of his creative power when he died, on Dec. 1, at the age
of 58. Yet he, more than most of his generation in dance, had accomplished what he set out�…

Katherine Dunham told a crowd of young dancers gathered around her. It was the start of
rehearsals for''The Magic of Katherine Dunham,''an ambitious new three-act program of�…

Alvin Ailey's modern dance ballet Revelations is one of the most beloved and well-known
pieces in the dance community and the wider world. Learning about a piece like Revelations�…