Tag: ailey ii

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The secret’s out: Dancers are the ultimate in GLAM. (Obviously!) The world of high fashion realized this a while ago, and recent press is confirming what us dancers already knew. (See Teen Vogue‘s “Strictly Ballet” and Free People’s ballet collection—which, with the help of Ballet Zaida’s Oliver Endahl, eventually produced some beautiful dance photography.) This […]

Here at DS, there’s nothing we like better than a good gala. Actually, scratch that: There’s nothing we like better than a good gala for an especially great cause. The New York City Dance Alliance Foundation hosted its fourth annual Destiny Rising show last night to benefit the organization’s pretty incredible college scholarship program. We […]

(Photo by Eduardo Patino) Ailey II, the prestigious second company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, has spent the last two months touring the world with four new works by Adam Barruch, Katarzyna Skarpetowska, Jennifer Archibald and AAADT artistic director Robert Battle. This Tuesday, April 2, Ailey II returns home to the Ailey Citygroup Theater […]

Hank Bamberger (second from right) performing Arden Court with Taylor 2 (by Paul B. Goode) You have your heart set on dancing with Boston Ballet. You’ve done your research, so you know there’s also a second company: Boston Ballet II. But do you know what it actually means to be in a second company? And […]

Want the scoop on what it’s really like to be a dancer in the Big Apple? You’re in luck, because “Dance212” is back on the web for a sixth season. Starting this month, cameras watch as five young dancers traverse class, rehearsals and the NYC streets. DS caught up with the stars of the show […]