Alvin Ailey Announces Jamison Farewell Season Closer Program on 1/2

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's upcoming performances at New York City Center feature special collaborations and guest performances with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Sweet Honey In The Rock, and special guest artists in a Judith Jamison Farewell performance closing the season on January 2nd at 7:30pm.

During one extraordinary week, from December 15th - 19th, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will join the Ailey dancers onstage for Ailey/Jazz, a joyous live music celebration of America's two great art forms - modern dance and jazz music - and two great jazz artists - Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie. The program features the first full production of Three Black Kings in over 30 years, resulting from Alvin Ailey's legendary collaboration with the great Duke Ellington, and The Winter In Lisbon, Billy Wilson's tribute to Dizzy Gillespie and the four-decade career of this consummate jazz musician.

Continuing the celebration of five decades of Alvin Ailey's Revelations, an American classic called a must-see for all people, the Grammy Award-Winning Sweet Honey In The Rock will bring their soulful harmonies and intricate rhythms to Revelations on New Year's Eve.

In an exciting finish to the season, a Judith Jamison Farewell Program on January 2nd will pay tribute to Ailey's leading woman with surprise guest artists and a one-night-only program highlighting a variety of much-loved works, including David Parson's gravity-defying, strobe-lit showstopper Caught in its entirety. Choreographers George Faison, Camille A. Brown, and Ronald K. Brown will make special guest appearances in excerpts of their works, performing alongside Ailey's extraordinary dancers. Notable former Company members Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish, Toni Pierce-Sands, Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, Nasha Thomas-Schmitt, and Alicia Graf Mack will return to the New York City Center stage to join this celebration. (see program and casting details below).

For over two decades, Judith Jamison has been artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, leading the Company to new heights around the world and into a permanent home - the nation's largest building dedicated to dance. Named to TIME's 2009 list of the world's 100 most influential people, Ms. Jamison is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, the BET Honors, and the National Medal of Arts. In 2010, she was honored by First Lady Michelle Obama at the first White House Dance Series: A Tribute to Judith Jamison; received the 2010 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's prestigious Phoenix Award, The NYC Handel Medallion (the city's highest official honor) and the 2010 National Award for Citizen Diplomacy.

Throughout the season, Ailey's extraordinary artists will move audiences with a diverse repertory that represents 23 ballets by 15 choreographers, inspiring all in a universal celebration of the human spirit, using the African-American cultural experience and the American modern dance tradition. Share in the incomparable sense of joy, freedom, and spirit that bring audiences around the globe to their feet night after night - you don't just see an Ailey performance, you feel it!

For further information on tickets and performance schedule, visit: www.alvinailey.org

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