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Venue: Zellerbach
Hall
Price: $26/$34/$48
Subscription Series: Winter/Spring
Series
Cal
Performances' time-honored relationship with the legendary Alvin
Ailey Dance Theater affords Bay Area audiences more opportunities
than anywhere outside of the company's New York home to witness
the troupe's distinctive charisma and dynamism. For more than 40
years, the troupe originally founded by Alvin Ailey in 1958 to promote
the uniqueness of African-American cultural expression has created
poetry in motion that stirs the spirit and lifts the soul. Now under
the inspired direction of Judith Jamison, the dancers' eclectic
repertory is filled with the work of this country's most inventive
choreographers, yet remains infused with Ailey's enduring spirituality
and uplifting vision. The powerhouse company returns for its annual
visit with new works and perennial favorites, including Ailey's
undisputed 1960 masterpiece, Revelations. "Somewhere
in dance heaven, where surely he must be, Alvin Ailey is smiling
with pride," said the San Francisco Chronicle after
Alvin Ailey Dance Theater's triumphant sold-out Berkeley performances
in 2002. "The Bay Area's love affair with the Ailey dancers
only grows stronger with each season."
Program A (2/21 & 2/22 eve): Lynne
Taylor-Corbett/Prayers from the Edge (Bay Area premiere),
music by Peter Gabriel; Ohad Naharin/Black Milk (Bay Area
premiere), music by Paul Smadbeck; Elisa Monte/Treading,
music by Steve Reich Eighteen Musicians; Ailey/Revelations
Program B (2/22 mat, 2/26 & 3/1 mat):
Ailey Classics, including excerpts from Memoria, Night Creaure,
Phases, Opus McShann, A Song For You, For 'Bird' with Love, Hidden
Rites, and Cry, plus a full performances of Revelations
Program C (2/23, 2/27 & 3/2): Billy
Wilson/The Winter in LISBON, music by Dizzy Gillespie; Ronald
K. Brown/Serving Nia, music by Roy Brooks, Brandford Marsalis,
M Bemba Bangoura, Dizzy Gillespie; Carmen de Lavallade/Sweet
Bitter Love, set to "Until it's Time for You to Go",
"For All We Know", and "Sweet Bitter Love";
Revelations
Program D (2/28 & 3/1): Prayer
From the Edge; Francesca Harper/Apex, music by Rolf Ellmer;
The Winter in LISBON
JUDITH JAMISON ARTISTIC
DIRECTOR
Masazumi Chaya ASSOCIATE
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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Major support
for the U.S. tour
provided by:
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Patron Information:
Program Notes:
Program notes are available online beginning one week prior to performance.
Parking
Alerts:
Education and Community Events:
Family Fare Performance: Sat,
Feb 22, 2 pm — children 16 and under half price.
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Fare performance (2/22) sponsored by: |
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Donor Events:
Related Performances:
Momix Dance Theater
Tango Buenos Aires
Artists links:
www.alvinailey.org
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