By Robert Gottlieb 12/26/05 12:00am

Ailey’s Astonishing Women, Ballets Russes Remembered

You didn’t need a crystal ball to guess that the annual five-week Alvin Ailey season at the City Center would be greeted with rapture by its full-house audiences and restrained enthusiasm by the critics. The message is the same, year in, year out: great dancing, inferior repertory. And in that regard, nothing has changed.

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By Robert Gottlieb 12/20/99 12:00am

Alvin Ailey’s Success Story: Dancers Who Can Do Anything

We have no more successful dance company today than the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and after the first 10 days of their current five-week season at the City Center, it’s easy to see why: Under the brilliant leadership of Judith Jamison, Ailey gives us ethnic and spiritual subject matter, a canny mixture of musical Read More