The holidays are a time for family and friends. This week offers many events and entertainment options we have fine dining uptown, dance in Midtown, film that rewrites the Ole South with a twist, and Harlem’s own Apollo Theater presents the first African-American holiday. Here are a few of the events taking place around the city and in our community. Continue reading
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Tagged Abdel Salaam, Alvin Ailey, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Apollo Theater, Bistro Chez Lucienne, christmas, Christmas Eve, Dizzy Gillespie, Django Unchained, Foie gras, FORCES OF NATURE DANCE THEATRE, Harlem, Jamie foxx, Jiri Kylian, Kerry Washington, Kwanzaa, Kyle Abraham, Leonardo Dicaprio, Maulana Karenga, Quentin Tarantino, Revelations, Robert Battle
Tre Williams and the Revelations represent a renewed dawning in soul music – one that marries the concrete jungle grit of the streets with the midnight blues of the rural South. Continue reading
By Walter Rutledge
This weekend has a varied offering of arts events happening around the city and neighboring communities. Dance, art, and music abound. Here are a few of the events taking place in our community and around the city. Continue reading
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Tagged Abysinnian Baptist Church, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Annie and Taseen Ferdous, Apollo Theater, Arden Court, Barbara Bullock, Celestial Tides, Clark Monroe's Uptown House, club harlem, Club Havana San Juan, Columbia University, Debkah Troupe, Essie Green Galleries, Firebird, Folk Feet Females: Brooklyn Women in Traditional Dance, Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival, Harlem Stage Gatehouse, Igal Perry, Joan Tower, Kaina Quenga, KowTeff African Dance Co., Kristin Sudeikis, Lenox Lounge, Minton's Playhouse, Minus 16, Najmat Falasteen, Parijat Desai Dance, Park Palace, Pascal Rioult, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Polish American Folk Dance Co., Raman Ramakrishnan, red rooster, Revelations, RIOULT, Rita Silva, Showman's Cafe, Sidra Bell, SMALL'S PARADISE, T.S. Eliot, Tamara Chernyakhovsky, The Violet Hour, The Waste Land
By Walter Rutledge
For the past thirty-eight years Ailey II has provided opportunities of aspiring young artists to hone their craft. The company usually will enlist the services of a dancer for two years, and then the artist, for lack of a better word, “graduates” into the professional world of entertainment. Throughout Ailey II’s thirty-eight year history there has been hundreds of dancers fortunate enough to make that transition, but there has always been one constant- Artistic Director Sylvia Waters. Continue reading
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Tagged 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER, Ailey II, Alvin Ailey, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Bebe Miller, Donald Byrd, Dudley Williams, Julliard School, Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity, Maurice Bejart’s Ballet of the Twentieth Century, Michel Descombey, Ralph Lemon, Revelations, Robert Battle, Tally Beatty, The Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, Ulysses Dove, United States, Walter Rutledge, Walter's World:
Today, Judith Jamison the former principal dancer and director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Co., was baptized at Harlem’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church. Continue reading
Fifty years ago, promising young choreographer Alvin Ailey turned the world of dance on its head with the breathtaking piece Revelations. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is celebrating the monumental work… Continue reading
By Walter Rutledge
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater begins a five-week season on December 1, 2010 at the New York City Center. The season will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Revelation, the masterwork choreographed by company founder Alvin Ailey. In preparation of this milestone the Ailey school’s department of Arts In Education and Community Programs presented a panel discussion entitled Celebrating Revelations at 50.
By Walter Rutledge
In the world of fine art a painter can be identified by his or her brush strokes. As individual as a fingerprint they are more defining than a signature. Some might say they are the artist’s soul; they possess the distinct characteristics that draw us to this person and their work. When the forces align to create the “perfect storm” we acclaim this phenomenon “art”, and acknowledge the creator with the title artist (unfortunately the word artist is generally under-rated and over-used).
By Walter Rutledge
The annual Ailey At The Apollo Spring Gala Benefit Performance took place Tuesday May 4, 2010. The world famous Apollo Theater literally rolled out the red carpet for the 6:30pm “photo- op” prior to the 7pm curtain. Toyota Avalon was the official partner on the red carpet.
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Tagged Ailey II, AileyCamp, Alvin Ailey, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Anthony M. Carvette, Apollo Theater, Chang Yong Sung, Clifton Brown, Desmond Richardson, Dudley Williams, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Jamar Roberts, John Schaefer, judith jamison, Kirven James Boyd, Levi Phillip Marsman, Masazumi Chaya, Matthew Rushing, Morton Winston, Pamela Zilly, Revelations, Robert Battle, Ronald K. Brown, Samuel Lee Robert, Tamara Tunie, Thang Dao, The Ailey School, Uptown, Walter Rutledge, Walter's World:
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