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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at Mahalia Jackson Theater

Dates: 3/21/2025 - 3/22/2025

Theatre:

Mahalia Jackson Theater

NOBA | The New Orleans Ballet Association

935 Gravier St, Ste 800
New Orleans,LA 70116

Phone: 504-522-0996

Tickets: $45-$209


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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrates 66 years as one of America’s most famous and beloved companies, bringing the African American experience and dance traditions to the world’s stages. ”Nothing prepares you for the totality of Alvin Ailey: the aural, visual, physical, spiritual beauty…Heaven…Everywhere you looked: sensory pleasure…” (The New York Times)  These powerhouse “dancers will set the stage on fire” (Chicago Sun-Times) with two different programs of new works and classics, including Ailey’s masterpiece, Revelations, performed on Program A, Friday, March 21, 2025.

 

Friday, March 21

Sacred Songs by Matthew Rushing (2024-25 world premiere), music by Du’Bois A’Keen

Finding Free by Hope Boykin (2024-25 world premiere), music by Matthew Whitaker

Revelations by Alvin Ailey, music: traditional spirituals

 

Saturday, March 22

CENTURY by Amy Hall Garner, music by Ray Charles, Count Basie, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Many Angels by Lar Lubovitch (2024-25 world premiere), music by Gustav Mahler

Grace by Ronald K. Brown (2024-25 new production), music by Duke Ellington, Peven Everett, Fela Anikulapo Kuti


Ages: age 6 and up



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