Joel Lobenthal on Alvin Ailey at New York City Center
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Joel Lobenthal / New York Sun
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Program Details
New York City Center
November 28 - December 31, 2007
"Dancing on The Subway"
""Jump!" commanded one of the slithering sybarites populating Alvin Ailey's "Night Creature" on Friday night at City Center. "How high?" was the body-language response of one of the men who were in hot pursuit. Their exchange is the logical extension of the doggy-paw hand jive that swirls throughout the piece, an homage to the vocabulary of Broadway and Harlem routines of the sepia years." Read review...
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