I sat down with Jessica this week to talk about her return to the company, her starring role in Hope Boykin’s Finding Free, one of the new works of the 2024-2025 season, and get her advice on dancing ...

DC native Samantha Figgins returns to the district for 11 performances with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Warner Theatre, the first stop on a 20 city US tour. While Figgins has performed ...

Jamila Wignot is no stranger to creating projects that deserve major fanfare. Best known for her work on The African Americans and Many Rivers To Cross, the award-winning filmmaker has earned Peabody, ...

If you’ve ever seen Hope Boykin dance onstage, you’ve witnessed modern dance at its finest. For 17 years, the North Carolina native has been giving us the ‘theatrical experience’ that has made the ...

"One of the ways that The Ailey School empowers young Black dancers is giving them an awareness of self," says Matthew Rushing, associate artistic director for The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is performing its annual show at Manhattan’s City Center with exciting new pieces – including Alonzo King‘s 2001 Following the Subtle Current Upstream in the works.

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater showcased performances of two new works, Hope Boykin’s “Finding Free” and Lar Lubovitch’s “Many Angels,” at their annual Lincoln Center performances. Ailey is ...

From a young age, Coral Dolphin dreamed of being part of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, spending four summers of her teenage years dancing with the company. Though her career took her ...

Back in 2001, Solomon Dumas’ mother was listening to the car radio when she heard an interview with some of the dancers from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Her son had planned to enroll in ...