When: Saturday, April 11, 2015 2:00 PM
Where:
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, 177 College Street, New Haven, CT
117 College St., New Haven, CT 06510
Tags: dance, performance, theater
Description: Yale Dance Theater’s spring 2015 project explores the influence of Alvin Ailey on the next generation of artists working today. Matthew Rushing, a featured dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT), has created a new dance exclusively for YDT. Renee Robinson, another celebrated Ailey dancer, has staged an excerpt from the early Ailey ballet BLUES SUITE (1958).
Forming his company in the late 1950s, Ailey promoted African American cultural forms while simultaneously embracing cultural hybridity. Just as Ailey looked both to the past and the future in dance, this production will look backward and forward at once.
YDT’s spring 2015 project is sponsored by the Dance Studies Curriculum, Theater Studies, and Alliance for Dance at Yale, and funded by the Arts Discretionary Fund in Yale College with additional support from Vera Wells, Joan Winant, and Paula Armbruster.
For more information on Yale Dance Theater visit: http://ydt.commons.yale.edu/
Open To: General Public
Admission: Free
To make a reservation visit:
Contact Information:
Theater Studies Program
203-432-1310
may.brantley@yale.edu
http://theaterstudies.yale.edu
Where:
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, 177 College Street, New Haven, CT
117 College St., New Haven, CT 06510
Tags: dance, performance, theater
Description: Yale Dance Theater’s spring 2015 project explores the influence of Alvin Ailey on the next generation of artists working today. Matthew Rushing, a featured dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT), has created a new dance exclusively for YDT. Renee Robinson, another celebrated Ailey dancer, has staged an excerpt from the early Ailey ballet BLUES SUITE (1958).
Forming his company in the late 1950s, Ailey promoted African American cultural forms while simultaneously embracing cultural hybridity. Just as Ailey looked both to the past and the future in dance, this production will look backward and forward at once.
YDT’s spring 2015 project is sponsored by the Dance Studies Curriculum, Theater Studies, and Alliance for Dance at Yale, and funded by the Arts Discretionary Fund in Yale College with additional support from Vera Wells, Joan Winant, and Paula Armbruster.
For more information on Yale Dance Theater visit: http://ydt.commons.yale.edu/
Open To: General Public
Admission: Free
To make a reservation visit:
Contact Information:
Theater Studies Program
203-432-1310
may.brantley@yale.edu
http://theaterstudies.yale.edu