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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Classics program at City Center delivers a breathtaking blend of athleticism and emotion that stays with you long after the curtain falls. As one of the city’s ...

On October 26, 1963, just four weeks before he was assassinated, John F. Kennedy travelled to Amherst College to honor an American poet. Robert Frost, who had recited “The Gift Outright” at Kennedy’s ...