Here’s my daydream. I’m walking along 8th Street and meet the ghost of Alvin Ailey. He looks gorgeous—just the way he did when I ran into him over 30 years ago in the same place. “Alvin,” I say, “did you know that on the opening night of your company’s 50th anniversary season—in honor of it—the top part of the Empire State Building was bathed in gold light?”
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrated its opening night at the New York City Center, followed by a dinner for nearly 1,300 guests at the Sheraton New York. The event raised $2.92 million.
Alvin Ailey started his company with a handfull of dancers and the idea of incorporating jazz, blues and gospel into his unique repertoire.
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater scorns doing things by half measures. Wednesday night’s gala opening of its five-week season at the City Center, celebrating its 50th anniversary, pulled out all the stops.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is 50 years old. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proclaimed Dec. 4 Alvin Ailey Day in New York; Gov. David A. Paterson has honored the company on behalf of the State of New York; and the United States Congress has called it the nation's cultural ambassador to the world.
Quite a celebration honoring the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. It is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
It's been 50 years since Alvin Ailey founded his dance company on 92nd Street; for the past twelve, Andrew Eccles has been all but embedded in the group, snapping thousands of photographs of its dancers.
When Francis Scott Key spent the rainy night of September 13, 1814, watching the British bombardment of Fort McHenry - a pivotal battle in the War of 1812 - he had only one question in his mind. Which flag would fly in the morning?
Clifton Brown was such a clumsy kid that his grandmother enrolled him in tumbling class when he was just four. The experiment took, and Brown soon turned to ballet, but an awkward growth spurt as 13 gave him pause.
The Bessies — more formally known as the New York Dance and Performance Awards — are often described as the dance world’s equivalent of the Oscars.