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Repertory

Ailey Highlights

COMPANIES

Ailey II

CHOREOGRAPHER

Alvin Ailey

Credits

Blues Suite
The Lark Ascending
Streams

RUN TIME

22 minutes

Ailey Highlights Program

Blues Suite (excerpt) by Alvin Ailey

The Lark Ascending (excerpt) by Alvin Ailey

Streams (excerpt) by Alvin Ailey

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A large group of dancers on a darkly lit stage sitting in chairs with arms curved upward

2024

Sacred Songs

Matthew Rushing

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Three men wearing purple shirts and blue tights stand on a stage. next to each other with their arms reaching up above them.

1997

Solo

Hans van Manen

A large group of dancers with their arms reaching toward the audience backlit by red lighting

1970

Streams

Alvin Ailey

Group of dancers leaning back on one leg

2025

The Holy Blues

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Samantha Figgins, Chalvar Monteiro

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
World Premiere

2 dancers lit in purple lighting, one lying on the ground with legs resting on the other dancer who is bent backward

1981

Treading

Elisa Monte

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Yannick Lebrun in deep lunge with arms exteded

1972

A Song For You

Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

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

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