Word: ailey
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...Alivin Ailey American Dance Theater...
...have seen the glorious future of the human race and it is Alvin Ailey...
...Carmina Burana," (1959) the first piece in the Tuesday night performance of the Alvin Ailey dance company's run at the Wang Center begins with the entire company dancing onto the stage dressed as monks. The costumes are in keeping with the music, a collection of songs and poems composed by renegade 13th-century monks who rejected their monastic vows. The robed dancers move onto the stage in an androgynous file...
...second piece, "Scissors Paper Stone," (1994) is a 14-minute romp choreographed by Brenda Wang as part of the Alvin Ailey Women's Choreography Institute. The title is inspired by the childhood game (also often used to decide rooming disputes) "Rock, paper, scissors," which Wang uses as "a metaphor for mutual destruction." Indeed, the piece is a tug-of-war between a man, a woman and an "other," a woman dressed as a man who seduces and battles with both the traditional man and the traditional woman...
...final piece of the performance is Alvin Ailey's famous "Revelations" (1960), set to the music of a number of African-American spirituals. This piece examines all manners of religious feeling, from tormented writhing and running of three men trying to outrun the flames of hell, to the unity of a prayer group, excitement of an impending religious celebration and the joy of a church meeting...