Legendary dancer Judith Jamison, who spent 21 years as the artistic director of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, passed away this weekend at the age of 81. Harper's Bazaar is republishing this story in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The performance portion of “Edges of Ailey” at the Whitney Museum of American Art was best when it stepped away from tradition. By ...

Maija García’s “Jazz Island” is a full-company narrative of a kind that Ailey hasn’t done in a while. And it features an Afro-Caribbean score by Etienne Charles. By Brian Seibert It can feel ...

When Ailey opens, the late Cicely Tyson comes into focus, standing glorious and regal on stage at the Kennedy Center for the Arts honoring the famed dancer and choreographer. Even then, at the tail ...

If, like me (and many others), you’ve seen performances by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and found them to be spellbinding but know relatively little about the man himself, a documentary like ...