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Article Excerpt
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
City Center, New York, NY
November 30, 2005-January 1, 2006
Reviewed by Susan Yung
Alley's annual City Center run included three premieres--two by seasoned hands and a collaboration by three company members. Taking Edward Hopper's painting Nighthawks as an inspiration, Judith Jamison's Reminiscin', accompanied by love songs by famous female vocalists, proved an upbeat epilogue to an artwork usually invoking anomie and solitude. Eleven dancers on the town paired off and regrouped, making for a spirited, shifting dynamic. As artistic director, Jamison has shown an affinity for pop/standard songs strung together to create a multi-act "soundtrack" (which sets up a dramatic and structural framework) and for adrenalized, competitive...
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