Word: ailey
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...artistic relationships are closer than that between a choreographer and the dancer who embodies his or her inspiration. Such was the relationship between Alvin Ailey and Judith Jamison. Ailey, at the head of his own dance company, drew on gospel music, the blues and other legacies of the black experience to create works that helped open the world of dance to new audiences and new performers. Jamison was the majestic dancer who performed Ailey's creations with a poetry and passion that matched his own. In such a collaboration, says Jamison, the other person "knows what you're doing without...
Nevertheless, Jamison was eager to stand on her own, and she left the Ailey troupe in 1980. But the mystical bond between them never weakened. So in 1988, when Ailey, ill with a rare blood disorder, invited Jamison to accompany him on what would be his last tour, she didn't hesitate. Between rehearsals, performances and travel, Ailey prepared her to carry on his legacy. She became artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater less than three weeks after his death...
Romare Bearden (1912-88) was one of the finest collagists of the 20th century and the most distinguished black visual artist America has so far produced: the only one, perhaps, who rivaled in his own time and field the achievements of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, Alvin Ailey and Arthur Mitchell, Earl Hines and Duke Ellington in theirs. His retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem is an exhilarating show marred by a sloppy catalog. This will not matter too much to the audience the exhibition will acquire as it moves around the museums of America, ending...
...culture too, New York remains a pacesetter. Other cities would be proud to have one world-class performing troupe. New York has dozens, including the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the American Ballet Theater, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and the Manhattan Theater Club. As a showcase for theater, Broadway has few rivals -- unless they are the city's own off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions. Its collection of museums is a gallery in itself...