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Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

New York City Center

December 3, 2008-January 4, 2009

Ailey's 50th anniversary season featured three new productions, two world premieres, and two programs of Ailey/Ellington works with live music. Each performance began with a film tribute to Ailey's career by Steven Budlong, in which interviews with Carmen deLavallade, Donald Byrd, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and Garth Fagan extolled Alley's vision and legacy.

Dynamic dancing by fabulous performers is always front-and-center in the extensive Ailey repertory, filling seats with enthusiastic fans. Bursts of applause greet difficult-looking passages the way ovations follow operatic arias or circus stunts, and the dancers obviously relish wowing the crowds.

Two new productions of Ailey ballets from the 1950s and '60s illustrate his eclecticism. In Masekela Langage (1969) colorful characters populate a steamy southern bistro, where music by South...

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