By Nadine Matthews About midway through director Jamila Wignot’s most recent film, Ailey, the eponymous subject of the documentary muses in voiceover recording about “the agony” of growing up poor, with a single mother, in Jim Crow-era Texas. Alvin Ailey explains that, as a Black man, he was made to “feel as if you were
By Tessa Perkins Deneault Those of us who spend a lot of time at the theatre are missing the experience of live dance — that excited chatter that quiets as the lights go down, the collective moment of silent anticipation and then the spark of immediacy that ignites as the dancers take the stage. But
By Anne-Marie Elmby In June, nine Royal Danish Ballet dancers travelled to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, organized by Cultural Adventures Copenhagen, which was founded in 2017 by former dancers Morten Eggert and Christian Hammeken. In July, another group from the company visited the Joyce Theater in New York, a trip organized by Ulrik Birkkjær (now a