Alvin Ailey News

Due to the severe weather conditions in the Atlanta area, this weekend's performance schedule for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has been changed. Ailey's performance on Thursday, February 13 at 8:00pm has been RESCHEDULED to Sunday, February 16 at 7:30pm. (Tickets for Thursday evening's performance will be honored at the new Sunday evening performance.)

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts will feature many exciting events as part of its April-June calendar.

Metropolitan Ballet Company (MBC) and students from Settlement Music School will present their annual collaborative performance on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 7:00 pm at the Kurtz Center of William Penn Charter School, 3000 West School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA.

Pioneer Theatre Company presents the charming Shakespearean comedy Much Ado About Nothing, February 21 through March 8, 2014.

Society for the Performing Arts (SPA), Houston's leading performing arts presenter, announced today that the organization was the recipient of a crystal award given by the Texas Association of Partners in Education (TAPE) in January. This award was given to SPA in recognition of its partnership with Houston Independent School District (HISD).

Green Space is pleased to offer a diverse roster of new/ emerging artists in February. Fertile Ground will present new work by various artists and Take Root will present an evening of work by Teresa Fellion and Teddy Tedholm.

For its 22nd annual Spring Gala, the Kennedy Center will salute the more than 13 year tenure of Kennedy Center president Michael M. Kaiser with Camelot in Concert on Sunday, May 4, 2014 at 8 p.m. in the Concert Hall. The famed 1960 musical features book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner with music by Frederick Loewe and this semi-staged concert version will be adapted, directed and choreographed by Tony Award® nominee Marcia Milgrom Dodge. The concert staging will be accompanied by the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Music Director James Moore. With this concert, Camelot makes its Kennedy Center debut. One of the co-chairs of the 2014 Spring Gala will be Laysha Ward, President, Target Community Relations.

The performers for the concert include Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Newsies, HBO's Looking), Tony Award Nominee Robin De Jesus, Kelvin Moon Loh (Here Lies Love), Nikka Graff Lanzerone (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), Sean Allan Krill, Sawyer Nunes (Matilda), Brian Charles Rooney (Pop!), Ashanti J'Aria (Disaster), Chris Hall, and more.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University presents the world premiere production of Witness Uganda, created by Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews, directed by A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus, with choreography by Darrell Grand Moultrie and Music Director, Remy Kurs. The production begins performances at the Loeb Drama Center at 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge tonight, February 4, and will run through March 16.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, beloved as one of the world's most popular dance companies, will travel coast to coast beginning in February on a 23-city North American tour hitting major markets such as Atlanta, Miami, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Chicago (full schedule below). The 25th season since the passing of legendary founder Alvin Ailey is led by Artistic Director Robert Battle who continues to expand the Company's diverse repertory with a wide range of important choreographic voices. Exciting premieres and new productions give Ailey's 30 extraordinary dancers even more ways to inspire audiences. Highlights of the season, launching in New York in December, include: (tour programming will be announced by January):

The Joffrey Academy of Dance, Official School of The Joffrey Ballet, presents the fourth annual Winning Works: Choreographers of Color Award, featuring three World Premieres by rising-star choreographers Justin Allen, Stephanie Batten Bland and Norbert De La Cruz III. The three World Premieres, along with Academy Co-Artistic Director Alexei Kremnev's restaging of Le Roi S'Amuse, are performed by the international members of the Joffrey Academy Trainee Program at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 East Randolph Drive, one night only, Saturday, March 1 at 7:00 pm.

Artistic Director Karen A. Fuhrman announced that GROUNDED AERIAL, a visceral aerial Dance Company, will present EMOTIONALLY CHARGED CHOREOGRAPHY AMPLIFIED INTO THE AIR tonight, January 25th at 8pm at the Lehman Center for Performing Arts (250 Bedford Park Boulevard, West Bronx).

On Wednesday, January 15, 2014, Michele Wiles presented the second evening of performances of her new company, Ballet Next, at NYLA.

Tickets for the 2014 Spring Season at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts go on sale today, Jan. 24. The all-star lineup boasts award-winning musicians, speakers, famed dance troupes and returning favorites.

Oscar- and Tony-winning costume designer Ann Roth and Broadway lighting designer Shirley Prendergast are among the winners of 2014 Distinguished Achievement Awards from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, beloved as one of the world's most popular dance companies, will travel to Jacksonville's Times-Union Center's Moran Theater on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 7:30PM for one performance only! The 25th season since the passing of legendary founder Alvin Ailey is led by Artistic Director Robert Battle who continues to expand the Company's diverse repertory with a wide range of important choreographic voices. Exciting premieres and new productions give Ailey's 30 extraordinary dancers even more ways to inspire audiences.

Directed by Jason Brubaker with performances by Billy Bell's Lunge Dance Collective showcasing Billy Bell (So You Think You Can Dance); Brandon Cournay (Musical Chairs); Shelby Colona (Peter Chu's award-winning piece This Thought); Kate Harpootlian (Dancing with the Stars); and McKenna Birmingham (Radio City Rockettes) with Natalie Douglas (Scrapbook 2.0' Birdland Cafe Carlyle); Mark Hartman (Broadway's 'Avenue Q).

MANHATTAN THEATRE WORKS (MTWorks), in association with the Theater Series at the 14th Street Y, are pleased to announce the world premiere of MTWorks Co-Artistic Director David Stallings' DARK WATER, directed by Heather Cohn (FringeNYC Excellence Award for Outstanding Direction for Other Bodies). In DARK WATER, the swampland of Louisiana is hit with the most massive oil spill known to history. Barnacle, an old sea turtle, fights against man's destruction, nature's wrath, and her enemies of the wild to save her children trapped in the spill. Poetry, allegory, music, puppetry and movement create this magical world as the animals of Louisiana face the ultimate threat to their lives.

The choreography of David Parsons has always been a mystery to me. He has ideas and a vision, yet they never gel. This was apparent to my colleague and me when we attended the David Parsons gala on January 14. While not exclusively dedicated to Mr. Parsons-there were tributes to Paul Taylor in whose company Parsons danced, and Robert Battle, who performed in the Parsons company--we came away feeling that if this is what we have to show for modern dance today, it needs some rejuvenation-and thought. Why are these works being done when there is little that they say?

Dance Theatre of Harlem appeared at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Friday for their Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration.