Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

PLEASE NOTE: This archived event page is for the 2005/06 Season presentation of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. If you are looking for the current 2007/08 Season presentation, please visit this page

Tue, Feb 28, 2006, 8 pm
Wed, Mar 1, 2006, 8 pm
Thu, Mar 2, 2006, 8 pm
Fri, Mar 3, 2006, 8 pm
Sat, Mar 4, 2006, 2 pm
Sat, Mar 4, 2006, 8 pm
Sun, Mar 5, 3 pm

Venue: Zellerbach Hall A

Price: $32/$42/$54

Subscription Series: Choose-Your-Own, Winter/Spring Mini Series

These are heady times, indeed, for the legendary Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The company has just opened its new home in New York City—the largest facility dedicated exclusively to dance in the United States—and has emerged in recent years as a model of both fiscal health and soaring ambition. More than 45 years after its first performance, the ensemble that changed forever the perception of American dance returns to Berkeley with four Bay Area premieres, including Acceptance in Surrender, a new work by three Ailey dancers, and Ailey's eternal masterwork, Revelations. "The sheer joy flooding across the footlights is irresistible" (Time Out, London).

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Program:

Program A (Feb 28, Mar 3 & 5): Ailey/Night Creature, set to Duke Ellington; Hans van Manen/Solo set to music by J.S. Bach; Ronald K. Brown/Ife/My Heart (Bay Area premiere); Ailey/Revelations

Program B (Mar 1, 4 mat): David Parsons/Shining Star, set to Earth Wind & Fire; Caught, music by Robert Fripp; Jamison/Reminiscin, set to Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, Regina Carter, and Diana Krall (Bay Area premiere); Ailey/Revelations

Program C (Mar 2, 4 eve): Jamison, Robert Battle & Rennie Harris/Love Stories, set to Stevie Wonder; Ulysses Dove/Urban Folk Dance, music by Michael Torke (Bay Area premiere); Hope Boykin, Abdur-Rahim Jackson & Matthew Rushing/Acceptance In Surrender, music by Philip Hamilton, Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway (Bay Area premiere); Billy Wilson (Restaged by Masazumi Chaya)/The Winter in Lisbon, music by Dizzy Gillespie

PATRON INFORMATION

Program Notes: Program notes are available online, click here.

Artists links:
Official Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater site

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