Alvin Ailey

One of the most incredible video that I watched to complete a Dance Observation assignment for Dance class is the video of: “Wade in the Water from “Revelations” by Alvin Ailey Company. This video was published on YouTube on November 25, 2007 and performed at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. This video is very beautiful and impressive at the first time I saw it. Then I keep watching it again to really focus on the detail of very movement and sections. The dancers presented a movement of…

at about age 17, She gave birth to her first son, Guy Johnson, and had several jobs to support herself and her son. In 1951, Maya Angelou married a Greek sailor named Tosh Angelos and she took dance classes in which she met Alvin Ailey and Ruth Beckford. Maya and Alvin Ailey formed a dance team called “Al and Rita” but never became…

scholarship to the University of Michigan to the dance program because of the outstanding job she did in high school. While going to Michigan, Madonna was awarded offered another scholarship, but this time to go study in New York City with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, so she ended up dropping out of college to pursue her dream of being a dancer. In this journey, she fell in love with Dan Gilroy,…

In the excerpt “ Dancing Man “ choreographed by Jason Coleman shows a variety of choreographic techniques used to engage and appeal to the audience. For example, there is a use of levels seen with half of the dancers on the raised platform up the back of the stage to create height. Also, the tempo of the music begins slowly and gradually becomes greater when the dancers perform the dancing section. It helps to build the energy of the performers but also the audience's excitement. There is the…

“My Experiences With Art” I believe art is all around us, whether it is something we see, or something we hear. Art has always been something very important to me. I’m not sure where my love of art began but it has always been something that is fun to me. I love art a lot and I believe I have a very artistic philosophy towards life. When it comes to my life, I live very carefree and “in the moment”. I live very passionately. I believe art is this way too. Many times when creating art things…

Through hard work and determination they earned their place history, the Eighties had it all MTV, Michael Jackson, and Madonna the three big M’s of the Eighties, they influenced an Era and defined a generation. MTV blew into the Eighties like a hurricane and it rocked a generation. There were very few channels that played music videos; and there had never been one that played them 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Many artist would have remained unknown if not for MTV. There were very few outlets…

performed by the Ailey Ⅱ company in the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, which started at 7:30pm on October 28th, 2016. The show started at 7;30 pm and lasted for about one an hour and a half. And it included three dances and two intermissions. The dances were Circular, Sketches of Flames, and Revelations. Circular and Sketches of flames are newly choreographed dances by Jae Man Joo and Bridget L. Moore respectively. While Revelations is was originally choreographed by Alvin Ailey in 1960.…

any other things found in nature. Asadata Dafora, originally from West Africa, constructed a dance that was influenced by the king of birds, the ostrich. This dance piece titled Awassa Astrige/Ostrich debuted in 1932 as a solo piece performed by Alvin Ailey that expressed what the choreographer experienced while in…

Institute of Arts and Letters in 1972. Romare Bearden will be recognized as the most creative and visual artists of the twentieth century. He experimented with many different mediums and artistic styles, he also designed costumes and the sets of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He did sets and designs for Nanette Bearden’s Contemporary Dance…

who is stopped by the police, either in cars or where ever. Most of the time, the colored folks are more than likely to be racially profiled, without even doing anything. “One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.” - Alvin Ailey Clearly, if the adult is stopped by the police and the child or young adult is there and they see what the police are doing to their parents, they’re going to think that’s how they will be treated. To conclude, Racism is still one of the…