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...came to Harvard I've met a lot more black people. I did every activity growing up. I did Jell-O pudding commercials with Bill Cosby....I was very competitive in gymnastics from three to 15. I was second in the state of New York. I danced for Alvin Ailey. I had a pony and a horse. I took music lessons. I can play flute, clarinet and piano. Everyone always talks about TV shows they remember. The only show I remember watching as a child was DuckTales. I was in Miss New York when I was eight or nine...
...Boston culturally can be unapologeticallywhite--if you go to [see the] Alvin Ailey [DanceCompany] you've done your thing for a year," saysDuBois Institute administrator April Garrett, whoworked with Goff on the festival. "The projectisn't to say that we are doing this for blackpeople only, but it is to say that there is ablack tradition of music that needs to be examinedon a yearly basis, and you need to beknowledgeable about it," she says...
Revelation! Alvin Ailey at the Wang Theatre through Sunday...
Check out one of the nation's premier dance troupes as Judith Jamison leads the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Ensemble. Through Sunday. Wang Theater, 270 Tremont...
Some of the company's best dancers, interestingly, have a ballet background. Desmond Rich-ardson, formerly with Alvin Ailey and now a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, tears up the joint in Percussion 4, while Elizabeth Parkinson, an ex-Joffrey ballerina with legs as long as War and Peace, is volcanically sexy in Sing, Sing, Sing. But the Broadway gypsies are just as satisfying, especially Jane Lanier and Scott Wise, who bring welcome warmth to Fosse without compromising its essential tough mindedness...