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Kimmel Campus Presents

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Friday
Feb 24, 2023
Sunday
Feb 26, 2023
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Overview

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dazzles with technical brilliance and passionate energy, bringing audiences to their feet at every performance. The dancers electrify the stage with new works by some of the most dynamic choreographers of today and signature Ailey classics. This season’s repertory showcases the radiance of the dancers in pieces by great Ailey contemporaries with Twyla Tharp’s Roy’s Joys, a sultry work mixing vernacular dance with ballet and modern technique set to the 1940’s and 50’s jazz soundtrack by Roy Eldridge, and Alvin Ailey’s Survivors, an impassioned tribute to the profound courage and anguish of Nelson and Winnie Mandela.

Thrilling new works by Kyle Abraham and Jamar Roberts find reservoirs of love and resilience in our complicated lives and times. Jamar Roberts’ In a Sentimental Mood bridges the past and present with an original composition by Duke Ellington and four jazz standards that are given an avant-garde twist by composer Rafiq Bhatia. Acclaimed choreographer, Kyle Abraham’s newest work, Are You In Your Feelings?, is a celebration of Black culture, Black music, and the youthful spirt that perseveres in us all and is scored to a mixtape of soul, hip-hop, and R&B with songs by Erykah Badu and Jazmine Sullivan. Each program will close with Alvin Ailey's soul-stirring Revelations, the beloved masterpiece that "cannot fail to move" (Vogue). 

Friday, February 24 – 7:30PM
Roy’s Joy
Survivors
Revelations

Saturday, February 25 – 2:00PM
Roy’s Joys
Survivors
Revelations

Saturday, February 25 – 7:30PM
In a Sentimental Mood
Are You in Your Feelings?
Revelations

Sunday, February 26 – 2:00PM
In a Sentimental Mood
Are You in Your Feelings?
Revelations

*Repertory subject to change

Robert Battle
Artistic Director

Matthew Rushing
Associate Artistic Director

 

“The irresistible dancers of Ailey are back”
The New Yorker

“An international powerhouse known for explosive and appealing modern dance.” – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“[Kyle Abraham’s] third work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 'Are You in Your Feelings,’ … unfurls to an R&B, soul and hip-hop compilation of thoroughly danceable songs about love and relationships.” - New York Times

“The Ailey dancers set the stage on fire with contemporary repertory. Talk about electrifying. The dancers wrapped their bodies and souls around works created for them.” -Chicago Sun Times

“This company’s nonchalant virtuosity routinely sends its audience into the rapture zone.” -The Washington Post

“In its sixty-year history, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre has enjoyed an inspiring ascent from hardscrabble origins to a long, still unchallenged reign as America’s most popular dance company…”-The New Yorker

“Unbelievable. Go see Ailey. It’s change-your-life good.”  – NBC’S Today Show

“[Revelations] becomes brighter, its brilliance more memorable, every year." - The New York Times 

Academy Of Music

240 S Broad St.

Philadelphia, PA 19102

Run Time: approx. 2 hours
Intermission: 2 15-minute intermissions

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