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Dancers performing Alvin Ailey's Masekela Langage, clad in bold costumes and striking a powerful pose onstage.

Repertory

Ailey Excerpts Program

COMPANIES

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

CHOREOGRAPHER

Alvin Ailey

RUN TIME

23 minutes

Program

Pas de Duke (excerpt)

Masekela Langage (excerpt)

Opus McShann (excerpt)

Love Songs (excerpt)

For 'Bird'–With Love (excerpt)

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Six dancers in a line in various poses in red and white with part of the background lit in red

1999

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2 dancers with one leg up and one arm back off balance

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2024

Luminous

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Many Angels

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Ailey II in Alia Kache's 'Mystery at Sky Square,' photo by Nir Arieli.

2024

Mystery at Sky Square

Alia Kache

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An ensemble of dancers in yellow costumes looking upward toward 1 arm with 1 knee bent

1960

Revelations

Alvin Ailey

A group of dancers in flesh tone dresses look up and reach their hands to the sky

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