https://pressroom.ailey.orgThe Ailey Organizationen-usFri, 23 Oct 2026 18:52:31 GMTFri, 23 Oct 2026 18:52:31 GMTiPressroomhttps://pressroom.alvinailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=6ab54c213d6332af5b20e7f1&file_ext=.pdf&page_id=&ir=1releasesAlicia Graf MackSpecial EventsThe Ailey OrganizationIntroducing RhythmThu, 24 Sep 2026 16:18:04 GMThttps://pressroom.alvinailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=6ab54c213d6332af5b20e7f1&file_ext=.pdf&page_id=&ir=1Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:11:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=69839a263d6332a43ec86402&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfreleasesAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterDirectorsThe Ailey OrganizationLeadershipBennett RinkDaria L. WallachAlicia Graf MackThu, 05 Feb 2026 05:58:40 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=69839a263d6332a43ec86402&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfWed, 04 Feb 2026 19:31:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=6807bd173d6332de0dc7c26b&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterSpecial EventsThe Ailey OrganizationWashington, D.C. Gala BenefitTue, 22 Apr 2025 16:08:20 GMTTalent and Vision: With a repertoire that features nearly 300 pieces by over 100 choreographers, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has graced stages in more than 70 nations across six continents and has been celebrated as a "Vital American Cultural Ambassador to the World" and Ailey did not disappoint the packed Kennedy Center Opera House audience during an extraordinary one-night-only gala performance, followed by an evening soiree at the Nations Gallery. ]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=6807bd173d6332de0dc7c26b&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfTue, 01 Apr 2025 15:57:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=677ef3493d633252d725f276&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterAiley IIArtistic DirectionSylvia WatersDirectorsMasazumi ChayaSpecial EventsThe Ailey OrganizationLeadershipMasazumi ChayaSylvia WatersEdges of Ailey Whitney ExhibitionWed, 08 Jan 2025 21:58:47 GMTIn 1949, as legend has it, Alvin Ailey, then a young gymnast, followed school buddy and fellow future dance icon Carmen de Lavallade to the famed Lester Horton “Dance Theater” on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. It was a simple gesture that would lay the groundwork for the future of American concert dance. After Horton’s unexpected death, Ailey took over the Horton company for a while before starting the eponymous Alvin Ailey Company in New York, forming a beautiful, long and deeply intersectional lineage that incorporated dance, art, and innumerable interconnected histories culminating in the very first exhibit of the archival record of the Alvin Ailey Company, a show five years in the making and currently on view at The Whitney Museum of American Art.]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=677ef3493d633252d725f276&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfTue, 31 Dec 2024 21:50:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=677305273d63326c0125f286&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterSpecial EventsOpening Night GalasThe Ailey OrganizationMon, 30 Dec 2024 21:37:46 GMTThe life and legacy of Judith Jamison were celebrated on December 4 in New York City when Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater held an opening-night gala to kick off its season at New York City Center. ]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=677305273d63326c0125f286&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfThu, 05 Dec 2024 20:39:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=677302ba3d6332760825f262&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterSpecial EventsOpening Night GalasThe Ailey OrganizationMon, 30 Dec 2024 21:38:31 GMTThe world lost a great artist, but we did not lose her spirit,” said Phylicia Rashad of Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's late artistic director emerita. At last night's Opening Night Gala for the dance company, Rashad served as honorary co-chair alongside Gayle King and paid special tribute to Jamison: “Just as sure as if she was standing here, we feel Judith Jamison's strength and resolve, and we know what she would be saying. She would be saying ‘keep dancing, keep striving, keep teaching, keep reaching.’" And that, we certainly did. ]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=677302ba3d6332760825f262&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfThu, 05 Dec 2024 20:28:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=671915df3d63322fd1da9bed&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterSpecial EventsThe Ailey OrganizationEdges of Ailey Whitney ExhibitionWed, 23 Oct 2024 15:37:27 GMTAlvin Ailey was a momentous figure in American dance. One of his most substantial and lasting achievements was to transform ideas of what a modern dance company could be, collapsing distinctions between diverse worlds like concert dance, jazz and Hollywood entertainment. He was also a transformational figure for the Black community: the dance institutions that he built in his lifetime – the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center – have cultivated generations of Black dance talent while sharing the experience of Black people in America.]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=671915df3d63322fd1da9bed&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfThu, 17 Oct 2024 15:26:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=671918b53d63322fdbda9c0f&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterSpecial EventsThe Ailey OrganizationEdges of Ailey Whitney ExhibitionWed, 23 Oct 2024 15:42:39 GMTAt the edge of Manhattan, in an 18,000-square-foot gallery on the fifth floor of a bright asymmetrical building, is the first large-scale exhibition about the life and work of the groundbreaking Black American choreographer Alvin Ailey (1931-1989). This show is a long time coming, both for Engell Speyer Family Senior Curator Adrienne Edwards (who has been working on the show for about six years) and for fans of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, founded by Ailey in 1958 (I, for one, have been looking forward to it for months).]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=671918b53d63322fdbda9c0f&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfWed, 16 Oct 2024 15:37:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=6719138e3d6332f444da9c1c&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterDancersYannick LebrunRepertoryNight CreatureSpecial EventsThe Ailey OrganizationConstance StamatiouEdges of Ailey Whitney ExhibitionWed, 23 Oct 2024 15:25:37 GMTThe sun sets, the moon rises and New York City is reborn. The night was a source of fascination for the choreographer Alvin Ailey. He understood its power, how bodies could soften in its shadows. It’s a time when some people “become their real selves,” he wrote in his notebooks in reference to his dance Night Creature. It’s no accident that Ailey, the subject of Edges of Ailey, a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, choreographed a performance to open Studio 54 in 1977.]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=6719138e3d6332f444da9c1c&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfTue, 15 Oct 2024 15:16:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=670e93db3d6332e007481524&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterSpecial EventsThe Ailey OrganizationEdges of Ailey Whitney ExhibitionTue, 15 Oct 2024 16:16:01 GMTEdges of Ailey, curated by Adrienne Edwards with assistance from Joshua Lubin-Levy and CJ Salapare, which runs through Feb. 9, 2025, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, mates a full-floor, 18,000-square-foot gallery display with a program of over 90 live dance performances, classes and talks presented two floors below in the museum’s intimate theater. Its subject is the life, art and what its promotional materials call “adjacencies” of dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey (1931-1989), whose career in modern dance led him to international renown.]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=670e93db3d6332e007481524&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfThu, 10 Oct 2024 16:08:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=670e957c3d6332e00c481523&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterSpecial EventsThe Ailey OrganizationEdges of Ailey Whitney ExhibitionTue, 15 Oct 2024 16:21:36 GMTA deep dive into the life and career of a dancer and choreographer might not seem like a natural fit for the Whitney Museum, but it turns out that its new exhibition on Alvin Ailey (1931–89), “Edges of Ailey,” feels perfectly at home at the New York institution.]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=670e957c3d6332e00c481523&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfFri, 04 Oct 2024 16:16:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66fdb1543d63320035b14880&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfreleasesAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterSpecial EventsThe Ailey OrganizationWashington, D.C. Gala BenefitMon, 20 Jan 2025 12:30:40 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66fdb1543d63320035b14880&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfWed, 02 Oct 2024 20:29:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66fc3cb93d63323b22c84f59&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterDirectorsAlvin AileySpecial EventsThe Ailey OrganizationEdges of Ailey Whitney ExhibitionTue, 01 Oct 2024 19:37:02 GMTMusic’s in the air, and there’s painting and sculpture in imaginative variety as an art museum gives rare treatment to an ephemeral medium. With the spirited, sense-surround show called Edges of Ailey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York art season gets off to an exuberant, enveloping, though puzzling start. The show is a major institutional tribute to the American choreographer and performer Alvin Ailey (1931-1989). It’s also a relatively rare example of a traditionally object-intensive art museum giving full-scale treatment to the ephemeral medium of dance.]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66fc3cb93d63323b22c84f59&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfThu, 26 Sep 2024 18:14:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66fc47f23d6332724dc84f47&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterDancersDirectorsAlvin AileySpecial EventsThe Ailey OrganizationConstance StamatiouEdges of Ailey Whitney ExhibitionTue, 01 Oct 2024 19:09:58 GMTAs a retrospective opens at the Whitney Museum, New York, writers, curators and those close to the choreographer explore his vision to transform American dance]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66fc47f23d6332724dc84f47&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfWed, 25 Sep 2024 19:01:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66fc3e0d3d63323b2cc84fe9&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterDirectorsAlvin AileySpecial EventsThe Ailey OrganizationEdges of Ailey Whitney ExhibitionTue, 01 Oct 2024 19:29:43 GMTAlvin Ailey is one of the most accomplished and revered dancers in history. And yet, there has never been a wide-ranging exhibition chronicling his singular life, style of dance, company, and the impact he left on American culture. “Around 2018, there was a range of shows at museums about dance: the Lincoln Kirstein ballet, the Judson Dance Theater, Merce Cunningham,” Adrienne Edwards, senior curator at The Whitney Museum in New York City, told me recently. “I remember thinking to myself, ‘Why not Ailey? Why hasn’t a museum done a show about him?’”]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66fc3e0d3d63323b2cc84fe9&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfWed, 25 Sep 2024 18:21:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66e9ca8f3d633285c5795bf5&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterSpecial EventsThe Ailey OrganizationEdges of Ailey Whitney ExhibitionTue, 17 Sep 2024 18:36:36 GMTAlvin Ailey has never left the hearts of dancers, and it is that legacy which guides Edges of Ailey, the large-scale, multidisciplinary exhibition opening September 25 at the Whitney Museum. Under the direction of Senior Curator and Associate Director Adrienne Edwards, the life and works of the choreographer, dancer and artist are displayed alongside an archive of personal ephemera, music, and performance.]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66e9ca8f3d633285c5795bf5&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfThu, 05 Sep 2024 18:28:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66e9c8bf3d633285c1795be6&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterSpecial EventsThe Ailey OrganizationEdges of Ailey Whitney ExhibitionTue, 17 Sep 2024 18:40:02 GMTThe name Ailey is synonymous with dance. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is more than a company: It’s a brand, an integral piece of the cultural fabric of this country. It’s huge. But somehow the man who created the Ailey empire has become lost inside it, obscured as if by an eclipse. Alvin Ailey was a choreographer who seamlessly melded dance forms, a dancer of extraordinary strength and beauty, and a man — a queer man — with an expansive, restless mind.]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66e9c8bf3d633285c1795be6&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfTue, 03 Sep 2024 18:20:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66aa5eed3d6332fb9c150937&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageAiley ExtensionLinda Celeste SimsThe Ailey OrganizationFacultyWed, 31 Jul 2024 16:05:37 GMTLinda Celeste Sims knows a thing or two about the Alvin Ailey classic Revelations. The Bronx native is a former Ailey American Dance Theater principal dancer and one of the longest tenured dancers to ever perform with the company. ]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66aa5eed3d6332fb9c150937&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfTue, 23 Jul 2024 15:56:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66a2b1dc3d6332e2ba33df49&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfpress_coverageArts In EducationAileyCampThe Ailey OrganizationLeadershipBennett RinkThu, 25 Jul 2024 20:18:45 GMTAs a Black New York native, I first heard the name Alvin Ailey when I was very young, even as someone not necessarily inclined toward the performing arts. The pioneering African American dancer, choreographer and activist came up in Texas in the violent Jim Crow South, where he recalled seeing members of the Klan. Eventually, he found his way to California to work on his craft, and then New York City]]>https://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=66a2b1dc3d6332e2ba33df49&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfThu, 18 Jul 2024 20:12:00 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=667ec7e13d6332eb0e6066c9&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfreleasesArts In EducationAileyCampNasha ThomasThe Ailey OrganizationNasha ThomasFri, 28 Jun 2024 14:28:24 GMThttps://pressroom.ailey.org/_gallery/get_file/?file_id=667ec7e13d6332eb0e6066c9&ir=1&file_ext=.pdfFri, 28 Jun 2024 14:23:00 GMT