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☆ For 50 Years Ailey II Has Been a Proving Ground, Not Just for Dance
  + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Brian Seibert | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Ailey II, the second company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, turns 50 this year. Since its creation, some things have remained consistent: It has always served as a bridge between student and professional life. “It’s a pressure cooker,” said Francesca Harper, who has been the artistic director of Ailey II since 2021. Between classes, rehearsals and an extensive touring schedule that combines performances with lecture-demonstrations and master classes, those years are tough. “Alvin often called it a kind of finishing school,” said Sylvia Waters, who was the company’s artistic director from the beginning until 2012.
Persons: Ailey, Alvin Ailey, ”, Francesca Harper, Alvin, Sylvia Waters, Harper, Troy Powell Organizations: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Joyce Theater, Ailey School Locations: Waters
☆ At Paul Taylor, a Drum Circle and a Fierce Sisterhood
  + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Brian Seibert | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
It’s easy to imagine what Keigwin was after: introducing the noise-making excitation of a percussive score and flaunting its liveness. For a better use of a percussive score, Taylor audiences can look this season to Ulysses Dove’s “Vespers,” which the company debuted on Saturday. It begins with a woman sitting on a cafe chair, and the way that Jada Pearman sits up straight speaks volumes. The six Taylor women — especially Pearman and Madelyn Ho, who are having breakthrough seasons — become one fierce sisterhood. Where “Vespers” shows how a percussive score can be effectively channeled, Lauren Lovette’s new “Echo” shows how sharing focus with live musicians can work.
Persons: Taylor, Ulysses Dove’s, Alvin Ailey, Jada Pearman, Mikel Rouse’s, —, Madelyn Ho, Lauren Lovette’s, Kevin Puts’s Organizations: Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance, Orchestra of St Locations: Luke’s
☆ ‘It’s About Connections’: Alicia Graf Mack Remakes Juilliard Dance
  + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Brian Seibert | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The Juilliard dance department, under her leadership, seems like a happy place. Raised in Columbia, Md., she joined Dance Theater of Harlem at 17 and was an immediate standout: a tall, long-limbed, exceptionally graceful ballerina. Told she was too tall by American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet, Mack reinvented herself again, becoming a star of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and greatly expanding her stylistic range into modern, contemporary and hip-hop. Asked back by the Ailey company, she squeezed out a few more years, then moved into teaching dance at Washington University and Webster University in St. Louis. A child of professors, she found her “happy place” at universities, she said, and realized that helping serious students on the cusp of their careers was what she wanted to do.
Persons: Mack, ”, “, Alvin Ailey, St . Louis Organizations: Juilliard, Dance Theater of Harlem, Columbia University, American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey, Washington University, Webster University Locations: Columbia, Md, St .
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