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...Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater...
...SERIES OF theme evenings--like Wednesday night's "In the Black Tradition"--highlight the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's engagement in Boston this week. In his introduction to "In the Black Tradition," Ailey discussed the use of music and choreography to explore and celebrate Black experience in America. Despite their technical finesse, the four works of this opening-night performance lacked the emotional element of a typical Ailey program...
...performance opened with "Blues Suite"--set to jazz and blues music--a piece that Ailey created in 1958 about people and places from his hometown in Texas. As Ailey explained in his introduction, the train sounds we hear during "Blues Suite" echo those he heard growing up near a railroad track...
...first two weeks. He didn't try to rape me or anything. He showed me where everything was, and he fed me breakfast. It was perfect. (In Southern-lady accent) I relied on the kindness of strangers. So then I auditioned and got a scholarship to the Alvin Ailey school. I wasn't worried about not getting anywhere as a dancer. I knew I was a decent dancer. It was great. I moved from one dive to the next, I was poor. I lived on popcorn, that's why I still love it. Popcorn is cheap and it fills...
...that a lifetime these days? Her year-old first album, called Madonna, is now double platinum (meaning more than 2 million sales). Her second, Like a Virgin, came out three months ago and is triple platinum. Born Madonna Louise Ciccone in Bay City, Mich., the former Alvin Ailey dancer is among the sultriest of the video vamps, and now she is going for the big screen. She has a small role in the just-released Vision Quest and stars as the fast-living title character of Desperately Seeking Susan, expected out next month. "I shared a lot with Susan," says...