Ah, yes, the choreography (in fact, more like a square dance than Alvin Ailey).

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The dancers of the Alvin Ailey company are thrilling, and the dances they do are mostly sentimental and conventional.

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Today's Alvin Ailey dancers dance like superhumans compared with 1992 Ailey.

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These partners, on and off the stage, have been principle dancers with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for more than a decade, but now they've decided to retire.

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From the dance studios of Nagoya, Japan, to the New Jersey Nets' basketball court, Chio Yamada has strutted her stuff with a style that is part Janet Jackson and part Alvin Ailey.

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ABSTRACT:DANCING about the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.

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Today it is home to several major companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Eifman Ballet of Saint Petersburg, the Martha Graham Dance Company, and the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, as well as the Encores!

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Long before there was a downtown dance scene, Buttenwieser Hall was a home to choreographers like Martha Graham, who began teaching there in 1935, while Kaufman was a proving ground for major companies like Alvin Ailey, which unveiled its ground-breaking work "Revelations" there in 1960.

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For example, Alvin Ailey, the founder of the prestigious Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Judith Jamison, the dancing legend who elevated the company to world-class status, would not have been strong and athletic enough to secure spots in the same company if transported a few decades into the future while still in their primes.

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