Tag: clifton brown

Battling Cancer, One Dance at a Time

This year’s Dance Against Cancer poster features an original drawing by artist Keith Haring. A dance gala is always a good thing. But an impressively star-studded dance gala for a very important cause? It doesn’t really get better than that. The third annual Dance Against Cancer benefit, hosted by the American Cancer Society and produced […]

Ballet Blast from the Past

Sometimes Facebook is a magical place. Just this morning, I found a real gem in my newsfeed: an image from a November 2001 Vogue profile of two up-and-coming New York City Ballet dancers, Ashley Bouder and Carla Körbes. Vogue did a good job talent-scouting, because today, of course, Bouder’s a principal at NYCB and Körbes […]

Clifton Brown

Clifton Brown. Photo by Andrew Eccles. For 12 years, Clifton Brown has been one of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s leading men and a fan favorite. Quietly authoritative onstage, he balances explosive power with serene, noble poise. Raised in Goodyear, AZ, Brown first encountered dance at age 4, when his grandmother put him in acrobatics, […]