For its annual Kennedy Center engagement, the beloved company presents Ailey classics and new works, including Ailey’s signature Revelations. Watch highlights from the upcoming program in the video.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will continue its 2025–26 New York City Center season following the company’s Opening Night Gala, which launched a new chapter under Artistic Director Alicia Graf ...

Alvin Ailey was a choreographer who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958 at just 27 years old. Ailey choreographed over 100 ballets and was known to showcase the many experiences of ...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's leading dancer, Constance Stamatiou, joins Condé Nast Traveler to share what it’s really like to perform around the world with one of the most iconic dance ...

ATLANTA - When dance pioneer Alvin Ailey choreographed "Revelations" and presented it to the world in 1960, he unquestionably changed history. In the nearly 65 years since, "Revelations" has become ...

Alvin Ailey Dance Theater stops in Detroit and two women DJs talk about Detroit’s techno music scene The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is coming to the Detroit Opera House March 14-16. Plus, in ...

A 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 ...

NEW YORK, Dec 10 (Reuters) - (This Dec. 10 story has been corrected to say that Matthew Rushing became interim director in 2024, not 2020, in paragraph 11) A new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of ...

The arc of dance: Alvin Ailey, photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1955, and, seven years later, by Jack Mitchell. L: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale ...

Alvin 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 ...

NEW YORK — Judith Jamison, an internationally acclaimed dancer who later served as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for two decades, has died. She was 81. Jamison died at a ...

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