Dance Spirit - His & Hers Exercises
Want to work muscles all over your body? Try an airplane with a single-leg squat. This exercise will help both guys and girls improve balance while toning outer thigh, hip, arm and chest muscles.
Ailey II
The Pantograph - Ailey dancers bring energy, youth to stage
Meet Renaldo Gardener, the "baby" of the Ailey II bunch--the dozen strong dance troupe poised to transform the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts stage into a fantasia of bodily movement Friday night.
The Star - Top-notch dance: coming to a smaller city near you
"I was youngish," says Sylvia Waters of the time, in 1968, when she joined Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. "You can see that I'm trying not to be too specific," she jokes, speaking on a cell from a coffee shop in New York City.
Interview Magazine - Dance Off
Ailey II dancer Josh Johnson spends most of the year touring the United States, performing in Ailey's modern repertory virtually every night, rehearsing during the days, and subsisting on an unholy mix of backstage catering, Applebee's, and Outback Steakhouse.
Dance Magazine - Dance Magazine Awards: Sylvia Waters
Once, while on tour, Alvin Ailey noticed a young company member gazing wistfully out of the bus window. "She must be thinking about her son," he said to himself. And Sylvia Waters was.
New York Times - A Dancer Goes Back To Her Past In Berlin
When Dominique O. Rosales takes the state in front of the Brandenburg Gate here on Saturday with the other members of the Ailey II dance company, it will mark the end of an unlikely round-trip journey.
The Metro - Fine new wine in old bottles
By the time dancers hit the professional stage, they've been training for a decade or more. But you learn to perform by getting up and doing it.
New York Times - Ailey Fledglings Show How Far They Can Fly
Is it quibbling to say that the Ailey II dancers look way too professional to be members of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's junior troupe?
New York Times - The Refinement of Youth, That Inexhaustable Ore
To see young dancers perform at the start of their careers is to see dance in a poignantly pure or raw state.
Dance Teacher Magazine - Honors List
Sylvia Waters and Judith Jamison