I sat down with Jessica this week to talk about her return to the company, her starring role in Hope Boykin’s Finding Free, one of the new works of the 2024-2025 season, and get her advice on dancing ...

DC native Samantha Figgins returns to the district for 11 performances with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Warner Theatre, the first stop on a 20 city US tour. While Figgins has performed ...

The gift from Daria Wallach, a retired leader in the financial services industry, is to endow the company’s artistic director ...

If you’ve ever seen Hope Boykin dance onstage, you’ve witnessed modern dance at its finest. For 17 years, the North Carolina native has been giving us the ‘theatrical experience’ that has made the ...

Back in 2001, Solomon Dumas’ mother was listening to the car radio when she heard an interview with some of the dancers from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Her son had planned to enroll in ...

Alicia Graf Mack's office is filled with ghosts, the benevolent kind. She sits at an industrial metal desk once occupied by Alvin Ailey, the late dancer and choreographer who founded the dance company ...

Judith Jamison has an awful lot of which to be proud. Under her leadership, begun in 1989 after the death of choreographer Alvin Ailey, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has become one of the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — There are few images more indelible in the history of American dance: Judith Jamison, regal and passionate in white leotard and long ruffled skirt, punching the air in “Cry” — Alvin ...

Renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey established the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958. The Alvin Ailey Dance ...