New York Post - How Mack Got Her Groove Back
Even if you haven't been to an Alvin Ailey performance, chances are you've seen Alicia Graf Mack: Her photos, with one leg reaaching skyward, is plastered on posters all over the city.
Alicia Graf Mack
Good Housekeeping - She Inspires Me: Alicia Graf Mack
"In July 2008, I suffered what I thought was a career-ending injury - a cartilage tear in my knee," says Alicia, who's danced with Alcin Ailey since 2005. "I was devastated. But my mom reassured me that whether or not I came back as a dancer, anything I decided to do next would be brilliant."
The New York Times - Dancer As Athlete
William C. Rhoden discusses dance as an athletic endeavor with Alicia graf Mack, a dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Time Out New York - Alicia Graf Mack: The Gift That Keeps On Giving Is Back At Ailey
When Alicia Graf Mack left Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2008, it seemed that her dancing career was finished - among other things, she suffers from an autoimmune disorder classified as reactive arthritis, which, at the time, led to swelling and pain in her joints.
Dance Magazine - Q&A: Alicia Graf Mack, The Striking Ailey Star Returns to the Company
For a dancer who seems to have all of the natural facility in the world, Alicia Graf Mack has had a surprisingly difficult career. She spent three years as a Dance Theatre of Harlem ballerina, until she was sidelined by injury. She then attended Columbia University and six years later found her way back to the stage, joining Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2005.
Dance Magazine - Why I Dance
If I could take a guess, I would simply say that God designed my body to move. I can't sit still for more than 10 minutes. I can't read and listen to music at the same time because my mind starts choreographing.
Smithsonian - 37 Under 36: America's Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences
Alicia J. Graf was waiting at the Alvin Ailey dance studio in Manhattan for the us to the airport. She was dressed in jeans and a soft gray sweater, her voluminous curls, usually worn loose, pulled back in a knot. She was clutching dozens of pages of a grueling tour schedule that would dictate the next 16 weeks of her life. First stop: Jackson, Mississippi, then several other cities in the South, a hop up to Chicago, finally winding down with shows in Boston and elsewhere in the Northeast.
The Washington Post - Alicia Graf, Rising to a Greater Height
Some of the best advice dancer Alicia Graf ever got came from her mother: Since you're tall, you'll always stand out, so you might as well be glorious. Maybe that's why at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performances at the Kennedy Center this week, Graf leaps and turns and extends her legs so high it's as if she's trying to play footsy with God.