By Kristen Lawson Betsy Wetzig has been interested in patterns of movement since she was very young. She began studying with Estelle Dennis in Baltimore at the age of 6, joining her dance company as their youngest member at 11, and creating her first choreography for them at 16. During this time, Dennis brought in
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