dance: a la carte.ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is a modern dance company based in New York, New York. It was founded in 1958 by choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey. It is made up of 30 dancers as well as artistic director Judith Jamison and associate artistic director Masazumi Chaya. : Under the direction of dance goddess Judith Jamison, the Ailey has acquired a jaw-dropping array of superb dancers in an electrifying e·lec·tri·fy tr.v. e·lec·tri·fied, e·lec·tri·fy·ing, e·lec·tri·fies 1. To produce electric charge on or in (a conductor). 2. a. repertoire. Works by choreographers Ronald K. Brown and Dwight Rhoden Dwight Rhoden is a choreographer and artistic director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet who began dancing at the age of 17 while studying acting. He has performed with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Les Ballet Jazz De Montreal and was a principal dancer with the Alvin are featured this season from November 29 to December 31 at New York's City Center. PAUL TAYLOR
STRANGE ATTRACTORS: One of the most successful of all postmodern choreographers, Stephen Petronio celebrates his 15th anniversary with a banquet of lush movement in the premiere of his latest full-length work. The collaborative work, with decor by British sculptor Anish Kapoor and an original score by Michael Nyman, runs October 17-22 at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan's Chelsea district. AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE American Ballet Theatre, one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet Theatre in 1940 under the direction of Lucia Chase and Rich Pleasant. : These dancers will heat up an encore of gay choreographer Robert Hill's Baroque Game with a cast of incredible male pyrotechnicians, and choreographer Christian Holder will premiere his newest work, Weren't We Fools? a dramatic ballet set to the songs of Cole Porter. They will play the City Center, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , October 24-November 5. JOFFREY BALLET OF CHICAGO: This esteemed company will cook up a program comprising works by choreographer Gerald Arpino, including the world premiere of Footnotes for RJ, a tribute to the late ballet giant Robert Joffrey, who succumbed to AIDS complications in 1988. See them at the Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, October 26-29. THE BOTTOM PROJECT: Lesbian choreographer and scrumptious performer Julie Tolentino explores the meanings of bottoms up, hitting bottom, and bottom versus top. She whips it up at the Kitchen Center for Video, Music, and Dance in New York, October 5-7. |
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