by Jennifer Stahl For Dance Magazine | Jun 2, 2019 | News
Here’s some Monday news to rock your soul: An upcoming Fox Searchlight film about the life of Alvin Ailey just got even more enticing—Barry Jenkins, the filmmaker who won an Oscar for Moonlight, has signed on as director. It feels like quite a fitting hire. Back...
by Dance Magazine | Dec 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
What does it mean to be human? Well, many things. But if you were at the Dance Magazine Awards last night, you could argue that to be human is to dance. Speeches about the powerful humanity of our art form were backed up with performances by incredible dancers hailing...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jul 2, 2018 | Career, Profiles
In 2016, choreographer Jeremy McQueen founded the Black Iris Project with the aim of bringing together predominantly minority dancers each summer to create works that celebrate diversity and black history. This year, he’s mixing it up. In honor of South African...
by Amy Brandt | Oct 4, 2017 | Profiles
When American Ballet Theatre soloist Calvin Royal III and New York City Ballet soloist Unity Phelan burst into the opening diagonal of George Balanchine’s Agon on Monday, they had reason to be nervous. Sitting in the downstage corner of Columbia...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Oct 7, 2015 | Company Life
A lake is a familiar setting for a ballet, though usually its shore is home to swans or Wilis. In “The Lake” section of Alvin Ailey’s The River, which he choreographed for American Ballet Theatre in 1970, the dancers represent the water itself. In...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
The dance film The Enemy Within premiered in New York four days ago. The short film features New York City Ballet’s Tiler Peck, Alvin Ailey’s Matthew Rushing, Complexions’ Samantha Figgins, and freestyle dancer Marquese “Nonstop” Scott....