Tribune review of last night's Ailey show

The first review has hit the web - read Sid Smith's Chicago Tribune review here!

There are 5 more AAADT shows to enjoy! Call 312.902.1500, buy online or visit the Auditorium box office at 50 E. Congress Parkway for tickets.

Click here for more information on the engagement.

Picture: Revelations. Photo by Andrew Eccles.

Alvin Ailey Opens Tonight!

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater engagement opens tonight, with 6 performances through Sunday (plus a sold-out student matinee on Friday!)

Two of the dancers, Constance Stamatiou and Chicago's own Vernard Gilmore, appeared on the WGN morning news this morning - click here to see the video. (Look under WGN Morning News in the video section.)

And, if that's not enough, here's some video from Firebird, which will be performed tonight and tomorrow:

This week's dance preview on 848

Another Ailey mention, this time from Lucia Mauro on WBEZ's 848.

Photo: AAADT in Revelations. Photo by Andrew Eccles.

Preview articles about Ailey

Read about this week's Ailey performances, from Friday's Tribune and Sun-Times.

Ailey Video and News

We're getting ready for next week's engagement by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater! We'll be posting a lot about AAADT for the next few weeks.



Here's a section of The Road of the Phoebe Snow, which will be performed Thursday and Friday of next week.

You can also see last week's "Dancing With the Stars" appearance here.

Also, Hallmark has a new line of greeting cards featuring Ailey photography.

Box office hours this weekend

If you want to head down to the box office this weekend to purchase your Ailey tickets (or Celtic Woman or Joffrey Ballet, etc.), it will be open both Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday the box office will be open from 2pm-7pm and on Sunday from 11am-2pm. (The box office will be open until showtime each day for Celtic Woman ticket transactions.)

Ailey Making Guest Appearance on Dancing With the Stars Tonight!

Tune in to Dancing With the Stars tonight (April 1) to see the Ailey dancers perform an excerpt from Revelations accompanied by a gospel choir.

Over the next 18 months, as part of the 50th anniversary celebration, Ailey's legacy will come to life through special events and commercial partnerships: the artist David Michalek has created video installation screens depicting slowed-down versions of larger-than-life Ailey dancers along the ground-floor windows of the Ailey studios on Ninth Avenue; Hallmark has produced a series of six Ailey greeting cards; the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., opens an Ailey archive exhibit this May; Ailey will host a series of free performances and dance classes in all five boroughs of NYC in August; an Ailey Barbie doll is due out this fall, and in June, the Ailey company returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the first time in 38 years.

Photo: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Alvin Ailey’s Revelations. Photo by Paul Kolnik.