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All Family Members Are Not Created Equal

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Arts Management, Philanthropy, Joan Weill, Signature Theater, Edward Norton, Boards, Board Members, Arts, David Rubenstein, Frank Gehry, Kennedy Center, Alvin Ailey, Culture News

Every time you read about or visit the new Signature Theater, think of Edward Norton and one of his most powerful performances -- as a family member of staggering importance.

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Happy Birthday, Harvey Lichtenstein!

Michael Kaiser | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Arts Management, New York City Opera, Peter Brook, Eliot Feld, Harvey Lichtenstein, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bam, Bill T. Jones, Pina Bausch, Merce Cunningham, Alvin Ailey, New York City Ballet, Culture News

Harvey was best known as the inspirational leader who turned the Brooklyn Academy of Music into one of the great arts institutions of the nation. Before becoming an arts manager, he was a dancer who collaborated with choreographers like Merce Cunningham, Eliot Feld, Bill T. Jones and Pina Bausch.

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Celebrating the Joffrey Ballet

George Heymont | Posted 05.29.2012

Ballet fans will want to get their hands on Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance, a thrilling new documentary.

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Director Of Alvin Ailey To Resign

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Sharon Luckman, Sharon Gersten Luckman, Dance, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Alvin Ailey Foundation, Video, The Alvin Ailey Dance Company, Dance Theater, Sharon Luckman Stepping Down, Alvin Ailey, Arts News

According to a press release from the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, executive director Sharon Gersten Luckman will step down in 2013 to pursue other p...

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Alvin Ailey Dance Show Gets Audience Out Of Their Seats

AP | JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 03.04.2012

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NEW YORK — Imagine you're in the audience at, say, "Swan Lake," and the ballerinas you've been watching suddenly swoop over to your seat, envelo...

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Alvin Ailey's New Artistic Director Is Raising The Barre With His Modernized Repertory

HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson | Posted 11.24.2011

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"The crux of every work is the transition," choreographer Rennie Harris said, reflecting on his new work, "Home," dance in general, and -- almost unwi...

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A Look Inside An Alvin Ailey Rehearsal

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Theater, Rennie Harris, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance, Alvin Ailey Dance Company, Robert Battle, Alvin Ailey Dance, Alvin Ailey Home, Alvin Ailey, Culture News

NEW YORK -- At the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in midtown Manhattan, an unfinished performance is about to begin. A small group of press an...

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GAME CHANGERS: Innovators Remixing And Rethinking The Way We Live

Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Isabel Wilkerson, Joshua Kissi, Travis Crumbs, Ava Duvernay, Slideshow, Robert Battle, Tayari Jones, Natalia Allen, Alvin Ailey, Black Voices News

The Age of Obama has been called "the End of Black Firsts" and the end of race. Although neither of those things are true, the discussion about what i...

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An Uplifting Fourth of July

Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Leontyne Price, Glee, Millennium Stage, Anne Tomlinson, Independence Day, Kennedy Center Arts Management Fellow, Los Angeles Children?S Chorus, George Balanchine, Revelations, Arts, Rachel Fine, Kennedy Center, Alvin Ailey, Arts News

While I had entered the Los Angeles Children's Chorus rehearsal feeling tired from a long season, put upon by budget cuts, I realized once again why I do this work, why all arts managers do their work.

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What Is Wrong With the Arts?

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

The arts are in a parlous state, but contrary to popular belief, it isn't the fault of unions or the absence of arts education in our schools. The arts are in trouble because there is simply not enough excellent art being created.

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Astoria Characters: The Saw Lady

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Natalia Paruz, Astoria, Avery Fisher Hall, Saw Lady, A Prairie Home Companion, George Crumb, Glass Harp, Npr, Lincoln Center, Tap, Ballet, Martha Graham, Flamenco, Guinness World Record, Alvin Ailey, France, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Musical Saw Festival, Jazz, Academic, Concert Pianist, Carnegia Hall, Music Box, Israel, Guitar, Austria, Cowbell, Siren, New York News, Salvation Army, Nancy Ruhling, New York News

Does Natalia Paruz's tune come from heaven or hell? It emanates from a saw -- the carpenter's tool that's used to cut wood.

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Remembering Denise Jefferson

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Denis Jefferson, Dance, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Masazumi Chaya, Sylvia Waters, Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey, Arts News

The dance world lost a giant on when Denise Jefferson passed away. I would venture to say that thousands of dance lovers, who may not even know her name, have great reason to celebrate her memory.

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Robert Battle Take Judith Jamison's Place In Alvin Ailey Dance Company

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Alvin Ailey's artistic director has announced a successor, a 37-year-old choreographer with a decade-long history with the world-reno...

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Our Annual Symposium for Arts Organizations of Color

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts, Arts Management, Alvin Ailey, Kennedy Center, Home News

Every March, a group of executives from 30 arts organizations of color gather at the Kennedy Center for an annual symposium. We created this group be...

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Homo-Harlem: Learning How to be Gay from Movies

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, James Baldwin, Alain-Leroy-Locke, Carol Brice, Kenneth Mcpherson, Homo Harlem Film Series, The Motion of Light in Water, State Senator Bill Perkins, Henry Van Dyke, Wesley Tann, Nora Holt, Earle Hyman, Jimmy Daniels, Museum of the City of New York, Richard Bruce Nugent, Bricktop, Willard Winter, Gerrie Major, George Platt Lynes, Cecil Beaton, Walter Nicks, Langston Hughes, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Samuel R. Delany, Oaks Bluff, Paul Meers, David Willson, Althea Gibson, Edward Perry, Adelaide Hall, Countee Cullen, Inter State Tattler, Philip Johnson, Dr. Godfrey Nurse, Duncan Grant, Billy Dee Williams, Nella Larsen, Times Square, Tallulah Bankhead, Sex in the City, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Dorothy West, Johnathan Brice, J. Fredrick Lohman, Elsa Maxwell, Billy Strayhorn, Wallace Thurman, Charles Leslie, Truman Capote, Tom of Findland, Archie Savage, Marlon Brando, New York Amsterdam News, Carl Van Vechten, Maysles Cinema, Arthur Mitchell, Alvin Ailey, Martha's Vineyard, Jimmy Donahue, Clifton-Webb, Agustus Granville Dill, Monty Wooley, Cole Porter, Cary Grant, Joey Coleman, William Waefieldgeorge Platt Lynes, John Leapheart, Christopher Isherwood, Impact News

Yesterday, I saw the season's gay hit move of the summer, Sex in the City II, which has received such bad reviews, but my friends and I quite enjoyed ...

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Why I Worry About Modern Dance

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts, Modern Dance, Dance, Merce Cunningham, Kennedy Center, Alvin Ailey, Entertainment News

Virtually every great modern dance company was founded more than 40 years ago. Where is the current, not to mention next, generation of great modern dance companies to carry the torch?

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Obamas' Date Night: First Couple To Attend Kennedy Center Performance Friday Night (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Life in the White House isn't keeping Barack and Michelle Obama from holding onto date night. The president and first lady are att...

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Jill Biden, 'First Granny' Marian Robinson Step Out Together For Alvin Ailey Celebration

WWD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gala honorary co-chairman Michelle Fenty, who lunched with her husband Mayor Adrian Fenty and the Obamas recently at Georgia Brown's, said she was sur...

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Dancing With the Stars Needs to Do Something Other than Add Social Dances and a Non-Ballroom Judge to Spice Up the Show

Tonya Plank | Posted 05.25.2011

Is it just me or is this the most boring season thus far of Dancing With the Stars?

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Consciousness Rising

Russell Simmons | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Veganism, Yoga, The Balanced Life, Vegan, The Inner Life, Barack Obama, Jivamukti, Oprah Winfrey, Spirituality, African Americans, Alvin Ailey, Celebrities Talk Politics, Healthy Living News

Obama's spiritual concern underlies a deep compassion and toughness that comes from being in touch with and at ease with himself. This is what mindfulness is all about. It makes you strong in every way.

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So You Think You Can Dance Top 10, Alvin Ailey, and Bollywood

Tonya Plank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: So You Think You Can Dance, Ballroom Dancing, Reality TV, Nigel Lythgoe, Hip Hop, Breaking Entertainment News, Latin Dance, Bollywood, Contemporary Dance, Dance, Alvin Ailey, Krumping, Entertainment News

Wow, what a week -- I agree with Nigel: "brilliant job."

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