After 50 dotage, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre continues to thrive.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre has a chronicle spanning another than 50 caducity. It has achieved international advance while setting the principles for current dance excellence and creating a assorted Alvin Ailey esthetic.
The First Performance
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre basic performed in 1958 at Advanced York's 92nd Street Girlish Men's Hebrew Aassociation. The corporation included Ailey and 13 developing African American dancers.
Rise to Stardom
Judith Jamison first performed with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1965. At 6 feet tall she become Ailey's premier dancer and inspiration. Jamison left the company in 1980 but returned in 1989 to take over as artistic director.
Robert Battle
Robert Battle, a revered choreographer and modern dancer, will take over as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in July 2011.Alvin Ailey continued to choreograph throughout the 1980s. He was lauded with honours and awards including the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award in 1987 and the Kennedy Centre Honour for growth contribution to American culture in 1988. In spite of his solid grindstone ethic and learned success, Ailey grew ill and suffered physical setbacks. He was diagnosed with AIDS in 1987 and died in 1989.
Judith Jamison
In the 1960s the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre toured the terrene with performances in Asia, Africa and Mexico. "Cry," a critically acclaimed Alvin Ailey abundance choreographed for Judith Jamison, premiered in 1971. By 1978 the troupe had doubled in amount and accrued maid popularity.
Alvin Ailey
Battle has had experience working with the troupe and was an artist in residence at the Ailey School in Manhattan.
