The Ailey Trio’ is part lecture, part performance, part participation! It’s Thursday, January 15th at the Gem Theater and the ...

Tommie Earl Jenkins is a native of Canton Ohio. It's also where he began his professional career at a very young age. His career to date has led him all around the world from the theater stages of ...

Talk about starting on a good foot. On December 3, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater kicked off its 2025-25 season with an opening-night gala held in honor of Daria L. Wallach, chair of the ...

Experts say gait speed, grip strength, balance, and endurance are some of the strongest predictors of long-term independence. Here’s how to check them yourself—and what the results mean. Balancing on ...

New York. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, since July under the artistic direction of Alicia Graf Mack, alongside Matthew Rushing as associate artistic director, has progra ...

Carmen de Lavallade, a groundbreaking dancer, choreographer and actress whose six-decade career reshaped modern dance and theater while breaking racial ...

Carmen de Lavallade, the exquisite dancer who broke barriers throughout the arts during her six-decade performing career, has died. She was 94. De Lavallade died following a short illness, her son, ...

Over six decades she worked in theater, opera, film and television alongside luminaries like Alvin Ailey, Lena Horne, Agnes de Mille and Harry Belafonte. Carmen de Lavallade in 2018. She continued to ...

Preston Perez stars in the Guthrie Theater’s production of "Somewhere," a dance-driven family drama about Puerto Rican performers grappling with art, home, and displacement in 1950s New York.

On December 3, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater opened its 2025–26 holiday season at New York City Center with a gala that marked a turning point for the company. The five-week engagement—running ...