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...Yet in the case of Alvin Ailey, there are reasons for that....
...And there is no justification for Battle stuffing the calendar with his own and his predecessor Judith Jamison’s minor works....
...Although Alvin Ailey created Revelations when his troupe was just two years old, the 1960 hit not only guaranteed a future for this integrated company in an era of lingering Jim Crow-era segregation but...
...Robert Battle – the company’s third artistic director, since Judith Jamison’s retirement a few years ago – seems intent on changing that....
...Brown, the choreographers she commissioned tended to mythologise founder Alvin Ailey without fully understanding him....
...the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre glossed spiritual uplift with Jamison worship....
...No worse than Jamison, I suspect, and I hope a lot better www.alvinailey.org...
...At Revelations on Friday, the gloriously craggy singer Ella Mitchell belted out the gospels while Judith Jamison in conductor mode coaxed a low, spooky sound from the chorus and students from the Ailey school...
...Judith Jamison’s 20th anniversary as artistic director of Alvin Ailey is upon us, and no one will let us forget it....
...It was poignant that less than a week after he died, his Firebird should head the opening of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater winter season, unavoidably turning it into a kind of requiem....
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