Sky’s the limit! Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – in pictures

Close dialogue 1/16 Next image Previous image Toggle caption Sky’s the limit! Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – in pictures The always revelatory dance company is at Sadler’s Wells in London this month with two programmes, celebrating their legacy and presenting ‘heavenly’ new works Many Angels by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The company’s artistic director, Alicia Graf Mack, rehearses A Case of You with Caroline T Dartey and Christopher Taylor A Case of You is a revival of a 2004 duet by former artistic director Judith Jamison A Case of You features Diana Krall’s cover version of the eponymous Joni Mitchell song Yannick Lebrun in Many Angels choreographed by Lar Lubovitch Jacquelin Harris and Yannick Lebrun in Many Angels, set to Mahler’s Symphony No 5 Many Angels is one of three UK premieres in the New Works programme at Sadler’s Wells Isaiah Day, Yannick Lebrun, Jacquelin Harris and Jesse Obremski in Many Angels Jacquelin Harris and Renaldo Maurice in Revelations, the company’s signature work, which premiered in 1960 Sarah Daley-Perdomo and Solomon Dumas in Night Creature by Alvin Ailey, who founded the company in 1958 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater are at Sadler’s Wells, London, until 19 September Socialist Hotels is the first photography book to focus solely on the architecture of hospitality in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet landscape.

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