Jamar Roberts
Photo by Andrew Eccles
Photo courtesy of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
UNITED STATES
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA • Zellerbach Hall • Ongoing
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Programme:
Choreographer Ronald K. Brown pays tribute to Jamison's profound influence with the D.C. premiere of Dancing Spirit. Set to music by Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis, Radiohead, and War, Brown's evocative choreography uses movement from Cuba, Brazil, and the United States.
Talley Beatty's The Stack-Up is an emotional work adapted from a Romare Bearden painting to music by Earth, Wind and Fire.
Ulysses Dove's Bad Blood is a work about couples and relationships danced to a score that uses excerpts from Laurie Anderson's recording, ''Gravity's Angel.'
Characters from all walks of life come together in Among Us (Private Spaces: Public Places), Jamison's new collection of vignettes examining the joys and complications of human relationships. Original music by composer Eric Lewis and costumes by award-winning designer Paul Tazewell are inspired by a series of Jamison's own drawings.
A new production of Jamison's stunning, Emmy Award–winning 1993 tribute to Ailey, Hymn, uses full company dances and quiet solos to illuminate Ailey's humanity and the dancers' unique qualities.
In Uptown, take a tour through the Harlem Renaissance era. In this new ballet by magnificent, 18-year Company veteran Matthew Rushing, legends like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Josephine Baker, and their contemporaries come alive to the music of Fats Waller, Eubie Blake, and others.
Ailey's Night Creature contrasts classically choreographed ballet with Ellington's jazz idiom.
Otis Redding's music sets the stage for Suite Otis, George Faison's playful battle of the sexes.
The vivid emotions of Nina Simone's "Wild is the Wind" play out in In/Side, Robert Battle's solo.
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Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm
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University of California
Zellerbach Hall
Berkeley, CA, 94720-4800
Tel: (1) 510 642 99 88
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