Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is an African American modern dance company that is the equal of the world’s leading ballet companies. It popularized modern dance around the world. Really.
The Company is in residence at New York City Center. Ailey II is the second company.
Ailey Studios is one of New York’s leading dance schools. You can study many forms of dance at professional, amateur, and social levels. Ailey Citigroup Theater is a dance theater at Ailey Studios.
The Company has a spiritual dimension from the experience of being African American. In African and Diaspora tradition, dance is how we pray. 🇺🇸
It’s also a home for many great Afro-Latin dancers.
Every Ailey performance is a revelation.
Alvin Ailey Performances
Dancing the 92nd Street Y Brings Modern Dance Companies Limón, Martha Graham, and Ailey II Back Home
92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan ~ Legendary modern dance companies dance legacy works and new choreographers Omar Román De Jesús, Jamar Roberts, and Hope Boykin. 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
World Ballet Day 2023 Takes You Behind the Scenes at the World’s Leading Ballet Companies
STREAMING, November 1, 2023 ~ See some of the world’s most famous dancers, in the world’s most famous ballet companies, backstage at some of the world’s most famous theaters.
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Alvin Ailey News
MARCH
Modern Dance at the 92nd Street Y
“Dancing the 92nd Street Y” features dance companies that got their start at the 92NY including: Ailey II, Limón Dance Company, Martha Graham Dance Company and special guests; in Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $30. 92ny.org 🇺🇸 🇲🇽
MAY
African American Modern Dance
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater presents three programs of modern and contemporary dance; in Prudential Hall at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey; from Friday-Sunday, May 10-12, 2024. From $25. njpac.org 🇺🇸
JUNE
African American Modern Dance
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs African American modern dance; in the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; from Tuesday-Sunday, June 4-9, 2024. From $35. bam.org 🇺🇸
SEPTEMBER
Art of an African American Modern Dancer
“Edges of Ailey,” the first large-scale museum exhibition about the life, work, and legacy of Alvin Ailey, founder of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; is at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District; from September 25, 2024 through February 2025. whitney.org 🇺🇸
Alvin Ailey Tickets
Ailey Studios
405 West 55th St
(at Ninth Ave)
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Subways
(1)(2) to 59th St – Columbus Circle
(A)(C)(B)(D) to 59th St – Columbus Circle
New York Venues
Alvin Ailey dances a Winter season in November/December in residence at New York City Center in Midtown, and a Summer season at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center.
They also perform in the BAAND Together dance festival of New York City’s leading dance companies at Lincoln Center.
- 92nd Street Y, New York
- David H. Koch Theater
- Lincoln Center
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- New York City Center
- Whitney Museum of American Art
About Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey Jr. was born in Rogers, Texas in 1931. founded in 1958 by Alvin Ailey and first performed at the 92nd Street Y. As an American ambassador for the U.S. State Department, AAADT popularized modern dance around the world.
Ballet is considered the pinnacle and science of dance. Ailey dances at the highest level in every dimension. It is the equal of New York City’s world-class ballet companies, just in modern dance.
There is something deeply spiritual about Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater that we haven’t seen in any other dance company.
Alvin Ailey’s “Revelations” (1960) is the Company’s signature masterpiece. It’s a reflection of Ailey’s childhood memories of attending Mount Olive Baptist Church near Fort Worth, Texas. The piece eloquently expresses that life is a mix of joy and pain, but always tempered with HOPE.
Artistic Director Robert Battle stepped down in 2023. Jamar Roberts is resident choreographer.
Ailey usually has great Latin dancers. Some become stars of their generation and mentors of the next. “Each one, teach one.”