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Blues Suite is the ballet that launched the sensational Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958. What is extraordinary is that Alvin Ailey was just 27 years old when the dance premiered and it was only the sixth ballet that he had choreographed.
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Blues Suite is the ballet that launched the sensational Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958. What is extraordinary is that Alvin Ailey was just 27 years old when the dance...
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With the rumble of a train and the toll of distant bells, a cast of vividly-drawn characters from the barrelhouses and fields of Alvin Ailey’s southern childhood are summoned to dance and revel through one long, sultry night.
"Blood memories" of rural, Depression-era southern Texas come to life in Blues Suite, Alvin Ailey’s popular ballet that launched Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958.
Dec 28, 2008 · “Blues Suite” was Alvin Ailey’s first full-scale work, created in 1958 for his fledgling company. Its setting is a brothel, or at least a house of dubious repute, and its subject is the...
With the rumble of a train and the toll of distant bells, a cast of vividly-drawn characters from the barrelhouses and fields of Alvin Ailey’s southern childhood are summoned to dance and revel through one long, sultry night.
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