Valerie Gladstone News

Following last year's sold-out inaugural season, Dance Under the Influence returns with a schedule packed with groundbreaking newcomers and icons of contemporary dance.

'Dance: Under the Influence,' a provocative program of dance works inspired by other art practices will debut in the intimate MAD Theater on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 and continue one Wednesday performance a month through May 18, 2011. The program is guest-curated by renowned arts writer, editor, and George Balanchine-biographer, Valerie Gladstone.

'Dance: Under the Influence,' a provocative program of dance works inspired by other art practices will debut in the intimate MAD Theater on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 and continue one Wednesday performance a month through May 18, 2011. The program is guest-curated by renowned arts writer, editor, and George Balanchine-biographer, Valerie Gladstone.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) invites audiences of all ages to engage in our ING Family Matinees on Saturday, June 12th and 19th at The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Thanks to the sponsorship of ING, discounted tickets are available (15% discount is available online, via phone or at box office with code 12231) and the audience can enjoy a free post-performance 'Meet the Dancers' discussion.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) invites audiences of all ages to engage in our ING Family Matinees on Saturday, June 12th and 19th at The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Thanks to the sponsorship of ING, discounted tickets are available (15% discount is available online, via phone or at box office with code 12231) and the audience can enjoy a free post-performance 'Meet the Dancers' discussion.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) invites audiences of all ages to engage in our ING Family Matinees on Saturday, June 12th and 19th at The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Thanks to the sponsorship of ING, discounted tickets are available (15% discount is available online, via phone or at box office with code 12231) and the audience can enjoy a free post-performance 'Meet the Dancers' discussion.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater announces special music and video releases to coincide with 'Best Of' and 'Classic Ailey' performances at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Avenue) from June 9-14. A commemorative edition DVD of Judith Jamison's Emmy-winning 'A Hymn for Alvin Ailey' television special will be available along with the soundtrack to Alvin Ailey's landmark Blues Suite, on CD for the first time.

Following a celebratory New York season, which opened with a December 3rd Golden Anniversary Gala with Oprah Winfrey as Honorary Chair and Honored Guest, and the Empire State building shining in golden tribute, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) will now bring the beauty, power, passion and artistry that are its hallmarks to audiences across the United States. As part of a 50-city global tour in celebration of AAADT's 50th Anniversary, a 26-city U.S. tour will begin February 3rd at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center and continue through May 24th with visits to Atlanta, GA; Tucson, AZ; Berkeley, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; Miami, FL; Boston, MA; Newark, NJ and other cities. Led by renowned Artistic Director Judith Jamison, the Company will present a diverse repertory of exciting premieres, dramatic new productions, revered classics, and repertory favorites. AAADT company member Hope Boykin's Go in Grace; an innovative collaboration with Grammy-Award winning female a cappella musical group Sweet Honey In The Rock, who will perform their original score live onstage with the dancers, will be performed in 10 different cities including Atlanta, GA and Newark, NJ. Acclaimed Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti was so inspired by the dancers that he cast the entire company in Festa Barocca, his first world premiere for an American modern dance group, and one of the rare occasions to see all the Ailey artists together on the stage. A retrospective of Alvin Ailey's phenomenal choreographic career will be presented in a new Anniversary Highlights program that includes excerpts of over a dozen ballets. Spanning each decade, from Blues Suite, the dance that launched the Company in 1958, to Opus McShann, his final piece thirty years later, the program will also include his masterpiece Revelations in its entirety.