Highlights this weekend include Francesca Harper‘s homage to the history of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ... is helping to kick off Earth Month with a two-day film festival featuring ...

Highlights this weekend include Wynton Marsalis’ celebration of Black history and Black women of ... Discounts available. Former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater member Glenn Allen Sims ...

Metro Detroit has no shortage of events to commemorate Black History Month, with a range of lectures, performances, classes and more to learn about and celebrate Black culture. Black history is ...

The arc of dance: Alvin Ailey ... “to all Black women everywhere — especially our mothers.” The dance was made for his star dancer, Judith Jamison, who died this month at the age of 81 ...

“What I could do,” she told me, “was relate to things ... history. Ailey was an uneven choreographer, for sure, but what he wanted to promote with his company was the idea that Black ...

“I felt seen, I felt heard, and it also planted a seed in me that kind of told me, you can do great things ... its reflections on Black History Month, Thomas said Ailey’s legacy is one ...

founder Alvin Ailey and a group of Black dancers first performed under the AAADT name in New York City in March of 1958. “Numbers and ages really do matter,” says Jamison, a Philadelphia ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. "Truth, history ... Black-centric company Alvin Ailey ...

Black History Month actually grew out of Negro History ... John Lewis), the arts and entertainment (Duke Ellington, Cicely Tyson, Alvin Ailey, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Harry Belafonte ...

The Dallas Black Dance Theatre is honoring Black History Month this February with two ... Matthew Rushing, the associate director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, choreographed the piece ...