Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Studio 5 at City Center

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater <p><em>Conversations on Blues Suite with Sylvia Waters and Matthew Rushing</em></p>

Studio Event

All tickets $35

Mon Nov 22 at 6:30pm

Barbara and David Zalaznick Studio

130 W 56th St, 5th Floor

Overview

This Monday evening series of conversations and performances is an opportunity to hear from today’s great dance artists in the intimate setting of our historic studios. Events throughout the season feature artists from our mainstage programs.

Featuring the artists of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, this program explores Alvin Ailey’s first work for the company—the 1958 classic Blues Suite. Moderated by Ailey II Artistic Director Emerita Sylvia Waters and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Associate Artistic Director Matthew Rushing, audiences will experience past and present accounts of performing the masterpiece, and specifically come to understand the sections Backwater Blues and House of the Rising Sun with performances by Jeroboam Bozeman, Khalia Campbell, Caroline T. Dartey, Ashley Kaylynn Green, and Constance Stamatiou.

Learn more about this season’s five-part Studio 5 series.

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Programming subject to change.