The gift from Daria Wallach, a retired leader in the financial services industry, is to endow the company’s artistic director ...

DC native Samantha Figgins returns to the district for 11 performances with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Warner ...

Judith Jamison has an awful lot of which to be proud. Under her leadership, begun in 1989 after the death of choreographer Alvin Ailey, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has become one of the ...

Having danced with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for an astounding 25 years, dancer Vernard J. Gilmore has been interviewed almost as many times as he's performed the company's signature work, ...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre returns to Washington, D.C., with bold changes, honoring the legacy of the founder while bringing messages of hope.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returned to Washington, DC Friday night for 11 performances at the Warner Theatre, ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Alicia Graf Mack, the new artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, about her vision for the company where she once served as principal dancer. Pegged to ...

Alicia Graf Mack's office is filled with ghosts, the benevolent kind. She sits at an industrial metal desk once occupied by Alvin Ailey, the late dancer and choreographer who founded the dance company ...

Artistic Director Alicia Graf Mack tells PEOPLE about ushering in the next chapter for Ailey The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrated its Opening Night Gala on Dec. 3 The Christmas mainstay ...

Say the name Alvin Ailey and images of lithe ebony bodies come to mind. His choreography inspired via simple gestures — a male lead stretching his arms to the sky, a voluminous skirt fluttering ...