Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

SHOWTIMES:
Tuesday, March 14th @ 8pm [ZH]
Wednesday, March 15th @ 8pm [ZH]
Thursday, March 16th @ 8pm [ZH]
Friday, March 17th @ 8pm [ZH]
Saturday, March 18th @ 2pm [ZH]
Saturday, March 18th @ 8pm [ZH]
Sunday, March 19th @ 3pm [ZH]

A pillar in the American arts landscape for more than a half century, the revered Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns for its annual residency, with a bold mix of new and recent works as well as timeless Ailey classics, including his unforgettable and uplifting Revelations. "Restraint and release, spirituality and energy: they are all there in Ailey's masterpiece, Revelations" (Financial Times).

Program:

Program A (3/14, 3/17, 3/19)
BIGONZETTI Deep* (2016; music: Ibeyi)
INGER Walking Mad** (2016, music: Ravel, Arvo Pärt)
BATTLE Ella* (2008; music: Ella Fitzgerald)
AILEY Revelations (1960; music: Traditional Spirituals)

Program B (3/15, 3/18 eve)
AILEY Night Creature (1974; music: Duke Ellington)
AILEY Cry (1971; music: Alice Coltrane, Laura Nyro, The Voices of East Harlem)
ABRAHAM Untitled America* (2016; music: Laura Mvula, Joe Andrews, Tom Halstead, Carsten Nicolai Edition, Kris Bowers)
HARRIS Exodus (2015; music: Raphael Xavier)

Program C (3/16, 3/18 mat)
WILSON The Winter in Lisbon (1992, new production; music: Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Fishman)
BOYKIN r-Evolution, Dream.* (2016; music: Ali Jackson)
AILEY Revelations (1960; music: Traditional Spirituals)

* Bay Area Premiere
** Ailey Bay Area Premiere