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Alvin Ailey

September 2026

  • Many Angels by Alvin Ailey

    Sky���s the limit! Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – in pictures

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  • Dancers from Alvin Ailey's Many Angels perform in white costumes against a cloudy sky backdrop

    Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: New Works review – a heavenly night

November 2024

  • Judith Jamison, choreographer and artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City

    Judith Jamison obituary

    Dancer and choreographer who rose to fame with Alvin Ailey’s company in New York and became its artistic director
  • close-up of woman wearing glasses, patterned beret and black top

    Judith Jamison, acclaimed dancer and Alvin Ailey artistic director, dies aged 81

    Jamison joined Alvin Ailey’s dance company in 1965 and performed there for 15 years, premiering solo Cry in 1971
  • Emile Gooding and Caspar Lench in Within The Golden Hour from Legacy by The Royal Ballet

    Royal Ballet: Legacy review – a joyous celebration of Black and Brown brilliance

    Royal Ballet principal Joseph Sissens emphatically turns the spotlight on leading dancers of colour from around the world

October 2024

  • People gather in front of a red wall filled with Alvin Ailey posters

    Alvin Ailey: new exhibition celebrates the life and legacy of a dance icon

    At the Whitney in New York, an expansive exhibition six years in the making looks back at the visionary artist and choreographer

September 2023

  • Roza Moshtaghi’s Bouncing Narratives at Canary Wharf.

    Dancing City; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – review

  • a group of 12 dancers in colourful costumes, against a deep blue backdrop and beneath a neon semicircle, each with their right hand raised, palm flat

    Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Mixed Bill review – community-spirited joy

August 2023

  • Elemental … Ashley Kaylynn Green of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Kyle Abraham’s Are You in Your Feelings?

    Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater review – extraordinary soul-stirring dance

  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater perform Revelations.

    ‘I was flabbergasted by the sight’: Alvin Ailey dancers on their legendary Revelations

July 2023

  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Chloe Petts, Leila Navabi and Frank Skinner.

    Edinburgh festival 2023: 50 shows to see

    Cracking comedy, an eclectic mix of theatre – and aerial dance in an ice rink. Our critics share their picks for the August arts extravaganza

May 2023

  • ‘I love observing the way bodies are’ … Shelley Maxwell.

    Shelley Maxwell: the soul-stirring master mover who makes superheroes dance

  • Vivian Panka, Maddison Firth and Teleri Hughes in Heathers: The Musical.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Heathers, Alvin Ailey and more

April 2023

  • Members of Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theater performing in New York in December 2022

    Edinburgh international festival draws on MLK with themes of hope and community

    Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theater and Budapest Festival Orchestra among performers named in lineup

January 2022

  • Ailey

    Ailey review – absorbing tribute to African American dance icon

  • Alvin Ailey and his dancers.

    Ailey review – illuminating film about the choreographer Alvin Ailey

July 2021

  • A still from Ailey

    Alvin Ailey: the towering figure of dance who lived in the shadows

    In new documentary Ailey, the acclaimed public persona and troubled private life of the dance icon are explored

March 2021

  • The camera tailed them around the building ... Juan Gil and Simone Damberg Würtz in Rambert’s Draw From Within.

    Lockdown culture
    Masked moves and ballet in the bath: a year of digital dance

    With stages closed, dancers have thrived on Instagram and TikTok, given innovative online performances and found a huge new audience

November 2020

  • Exuberant … Yasmin Keita in Reach for the Stars

    Play time
    Reach for the Stars review – high-flying heroines take children to infinity and beyond

    The Little Angel theatre’s inspirational show uses dance, rap and puppets to tell real and fictional tales about trailblazing female astronauts

August 2020

  • ‘Tense as fugitives’ … Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s Shelter.

    Lockdown culture
    Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Shelter review – moves with our times

    Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s three-decade-old piece on homelessness takes on potent new meaning during Covid crisis
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