Lyndsey Winship reviews Held for The Stage
Posted: 28 Feb 2007
Donald Hutera reviews Deborah Colker's Knot at the Barbican
Posted: 1 May 2006
Judith Mackrell reviews Deborah Colker's Knot
Posted: 27 Apr 2006
Deborah Colker’s bondage ballet is a triumph of mind over muscle, says Clifford Bishop
Posted: 16 Apr 2006
Mark Monahan reviews the Mark Morris Dance Group at Theatre Royal in Newcastle
Posted: 20 Oct 2005
by KELLY APTER
WHEN Alvin Ailey's company gave its first performance in 1958, he could scarcely have imagined what would follow. He and a group of fellow African-Americans borrowed premises at the Young Men's Hebrew Association in New York for an inaus
Posted: 21 Sep 2005
by JACKIE MCGLONE
ALL proud beauty, gleaming hoop earrings and spiky false eyelashes, Judith Jamison looms large in the foyer of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's spanking-new home in New York. In the iconic black-and-white photograph, which
Posted: 20 Sep 2005
Americans have known and loved this New York based company since it was formed in 1958 and Birmingham audiences finally have the chance to experience its skills for themselves.
Posted: 16 Sep 2005
By Jenny Gilbert
The hugely popular Alvin Ailey company seems to be jinxed on its UK visits. Three years ago it postponed due to 9/11. Now its customary exuberance has been shadowed by another history-making crisis back home. I cannot be alone in wond
Posted: 11 Sep 2005
A sublime show from the Alvin Ailey troupe, but the revamped Dracula lacks teeth, says David Dougill
Posted: 11 Sep 2005
Judith Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre since Ailey's death in 1989, presents the company as a distinct brand, glorying in its popularity. Sellout audiences around the world respond to its heady blend of African-America
Posted: 11 Sep 2005
If the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's first programme was marked by radiant dancing and a worrying dearth of original choreography, its second looked more hopeful. With two new works (one a world premiere by Judith Jamison) it should have restored f
Posted: 9 Sep 2005
The Alvin Ailey company arrives in the UK with a well-deserved air of triumphalism, its swanky, new purpose-built base in Manhattan declaring to the world its position as one of America's top arts institutions. In the light of its long inspirational crusa
Posted: 9 Sep 2005
Feelgood can be a dirty wordin theatrical circles. The commitment to getting out on stage with entertainment at the top of the agenda primes critical scythes ready to slice through anyone who commits an act of showbiz in the name of art.
Posted: 9 Sep 2005
The relationship between the Alvin Ailey company and its public is a kind of communal love affair. The love-in began at the top of Tuesday’s decidedly mixed bill, the second of two programmes with which the troupe is touring Britain until October 5.
Posted: 9 Sep 2005
The Alvin Ailey company's first programme is a mix of sentimentality and exuberance. The energy comes from Revelations, the company's signature piece, which will be danced at every performance on this British tour. The other works on this first programme
Posted: 8 Sep 2005
No doubt about it. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre is riding high. If the opening night of the company’s big UK tour was any indication, audiences here are in for a treat courtesy of these conquering New Yorkers.
Posted: 7 Sep 2005
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is like an advertisement for a dance company. Sleek, fleet and strong, clad in fetching bright colours, its fantastic performers dazzle with their brilliance. They make the joy of dancing infectious, which accounts f
Posted: 7 Sep 2005
The tremendously popular Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre is at London's Sadler's Wells this week, at the start of a regional tour. And there, on stage, is everything the troupe has taught us to expect: entire identification of the dancers with the d
Posted: 7 Sep 2005
by Sarah Frater
A surprise, a challenge, a pleasure and a stinker is the best sum up fot the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Kindness requests the stinker be espatched first, but the surprise was so good, so appealing, and just so gorgeous that you
Posted: 6 Sep 2005
