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ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER 65th ANNIVERSARY SEASON
NEW YORK CITY CENTER NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 31, 2023
Celebratory Opening Night Gala Honors the Incomparable Ailey Artistic
Director Emerita Judith Jamison
Five-week Season Features World Premieres by Amy Hall Garner and
Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish
Highlights Include Live Music for Ailey’s Masterpiece Revelations and Ailey & Jazz, New Productions of Ronald K. Brown’s Dancing Spirit, Alonzo King’s Following the Subtle Current Upstream, Jamar Roberts’s Ode, and Hans van Manen’s Solo
Tickets starting at $32 are on sale now
Photo Credits (L to R): Members of the Company in Alvin Ailey's For 'Bird' - With Love; 2023-2024 Season Image. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Constance Stamatiou; Jeroboam Bozeman and Constance Stamatiou in Alvin Ailey's Masekela Langage. All Photos by Dario Calmese.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, beloved as one of the world’s most popular dance companies, returns to New York City Center November 29 – December 31, 2023, for an engagement that has become a joyous holiday tradition. Ailey’s extraordinary dancers will move audiences with world premieres by Amy Hall Garner and Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish along with new productions and a variety of repertory favorites. For this 65th anniversary season, highlights of a dozen works by founder Alvin Ailey will be presented in special programs, including performances featuring music by jazz greats and his American masterpiece Revelations, both danced to live music at selected performances. Tickets starting at $32 are on sale now at the New York City Center Box Office, through Customer Care at 212-581-1212, or online at www.alvinailey.org or www.nycitycenter.org.
For further information, visit www.alvinailey.org.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Nov 29 – Dec 31, 2023, at New York City Center
131 West 55th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues, New York, NY
(212) 581-1212 / www.nycitycenter.org
Death of a Salesman, Starring Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke, Sets Broadway Theater and Dates
Death of a Salesman is about a traveling salesman whose career and mental state are falling apart.
The play first bowed on Broadway in 1949, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. This production marks will mark the fifth Broadway revival of the play, and the first time it will be told from the perspective of a Black family.
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and masterfully entertaining!
DON'T MISS IT!”
DC METRO THEATER ARTS
"A casually charismatic, effortlessly charming performer, Anouka occupies the stage with confident grace" (The New York Times) in this Audible Theater production dedicated to the misfits and "others." Directed by Ola Ince, HEART takes the audience on a relatable and life-affirming journey that challenges the "norms" society presents us with and celebrates the freedom found in following your heart.
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We are deeply concerned because the American orchestral community is not well.This letter is a call to action to build a richer and more robust American orchestral community: one where musicians can share all aspects of their artistry and talents, where Black artists can see and center themselves in the history and future of the orchestral community, and can find reflections of themselves and their multiple strengths and complexities. We cannot call ourselves an American orchestral community if we are not inclusive of Black Americans and do not respect and acknowledge Black Americans’ contributions to American music and the orchestral community.
Baltimore: On the Verge of the Dawning of a New Renaissance .pdf [2.8mb]
Project Background
The public healthcare system has failed the vast majority of Baltimore citizens. COVID-19 has exacerbated this failure. They have not provided education, outreach, or culturally sensitive messaging to African American and Latino communities during the COVID-19 crisis, regarding the pandemic itself and the recently approved and widely distributed COVID-19 vaccines. There still exists stark health disparities and health inequities today.Through our youth, NBCI hopes to provide a bridge of hope to the future to ensure that everyone is healthy and thriving in the vibrant city of Baltimore.
Our Request
NBCI seeks funding from local Baltimore businesses to support an important, cultural, and impactful community-based youth initiative in the form of a tax-deductible donation of $7,500.Your business donation will provide support to NBCI youth initiatives in education,health promotion, family counseling, literacy programs, and more importantly,advocacy for the health community for all African American children nationwide. When the community is healthy and tourism can resume, it will help usher in this new renaissance in the greater Baltimore area. Each Baltimore-based business who decides to participate in this program and become an NBCI donor is helping to shapea new renaissance in Baltimore through a new mindset and positive outlook for the future of Baltimore through its children after the pandemic and beyond. They will also be pouring their hopes into a new future investment into our young, African American women. These children will become our new ambassadors for the city of Baltimore.
We have joined hands with Baltimore - positive community work over the years tocome - we hope to grow this program to 1,000 participants
Read more about this Baltimore Project Proposal .pdf [2.8mb]
Donna Walker-Kuhne
“Nurturing tomorrow's audiences today.”
“I firmly believe that the arts are the only pure vehicle we have in today's society that cross cultural and ethnic barriers and allow people to transcend their differences.”
Walker International Communications Group (WICG) provides consultation to arts organizations, performing arts, visual arts, dance companies, non-profit groups, Broadway and Off Broadway productions. WICG has a combined 45 years of successful marketing and audience development strategic campaigns on Broadway, and for cultural arts organizations.
With current and past clients in more than 400 U.S. cities and five continents, Donna and her team have raised more than $20 million in earned income developing community engagement and promoting the arts to multicultural communities.
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Arts Archives
Maya Angelou: A Phenomenal Woman Passes On
The poet and civil rights activist has died at the age of 86.
Other Current NBCI Arts Initiative Projects
With all of the negative images being painted of our people in the media, the NBCI endorses and supports a groundbreaking art exhibition of a father and son on their journey to teach, transform, and transcend.
NBCI Arts Initiative Press Releases
- NBCI Strongly Endorses "The Mountaintop" on Broadway .pdf [114kb]
This Signals NBCI's New Art Initiative. Rev Anthony Evans, President of NBCI says, "We have been searching for some time for an artistic expression the Black Church can put its arm around."
Below are films and onstage plays endorsed and supported by the National Black Church Initiative. Click here to see the Arts Initiative Archive.