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December 7, 2007


Jennifer Dunning on Alvin Ailey at New York City Center


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By Jennifer Dunning / New York Times

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Program Details
New York City Center
November 28 - December 31, 2007

"Crisscrossing the Stage, Highly Charged Moves From Familiar Pieces"

"How easily the memory plays tricks. Or does it? The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater made a nearly abstract piece of Talley Beatty's classic "Road of the Phoebe Snow" on Wednesday night at City Center. And the company performed Ailey's "River" as if it were anything but the sometimes pallid-seeming exercise in choreographing for a ballet troupe." Read review...

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