No Show Like Home
Posted on January 18, 2012 by A&U in Music, Dance & Theater, Noteworthy, The Arts
The Alvin Ailey Dance Company’s Home Spotlights the Fight Against HIV by Chip Alfred Deep where the sun don’t shine Is a place that I call home. When the planetary alignment is right And the DJ cuts out the lights Deep is where I’m home. —”Underground Is My Home” by Dennis Ferrer from Home The [...]
Photo Op
Posted on August 11, 2011 by A&U in Cover Story, Music, Dance & Theater, The Arts
As Judith Jamison Ensures that a Dance Legacy She Helped Create Lives On, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Celebrates the Winners of the Fight HIV Your Way Photo Contest by Chip Alfred A grand dame of modern dance, Judith Jamison is one of the most revered artists of her generation. She catapulted to international stardom [...]
Fight HIV Your Way
Posted on February 1, 2011 by A&U in Noteworthy
If you created a word cloud around Alvin Ailey, items sure to pop up would be “dance theater,” “Judith Jamison,” “Revelations,” “Duke Ellington,” “Scripps Award” and any number of superlatives that trailed the famed choreographer and dancer since the late 1950s to his death from AIDS-related complications on December 1, 1989, and beyond. Joining the [...]
