Remembering Alvin Ailey: Through the Eyes of Dana Hash-Campbell
Retold by Elizabeth McPherson, PhD
I entered the Ailey school as a scholarship student in 1986. It was very different then – smaller and more intimate. We were in the old Minskoff building. There were maybe 12 of us on scholarship. It was personal. Alvin knew everybody. He would stroll the halls and walk in, and sit and watch somebody’s class for a while, and then he’d get up and walk on. He would run up behind you and put his hands over your eyes, and say “Guess who?”
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Royal Danish Ballet - Kate Snedeker reports from Copenhagen
by Kate Snedeker -- Spring 2008, Royal Theater, Copenhagen
 'Phantom Rose' -- a hybrid Chinese Afro-Caribbean Dance
by Margaret Chan -- February 14-16, 2008, The Al Green Theatre, Toronto, Canada
On February 14 – 16, 2008, the Little Pear Garden Collective presented three nights of dance performances to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Rat. Showcasing traditional and contemporary Chinese dance, six dances were performed each night at the Al Green Theatre, Toronto.
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San Francisco Ballet - New Works Festival Program C: Margaret Jenkins, Val Caniparoli, Jorma Elo
by Becca Hirschman -- May 3, 2008, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Pennsylvania Ballet - 'Coppelia'
by Lori Ibay -- April 26, 2008, Merriam Theater, Philadelphia
Word Dance Theater - 'The Dances of Isadora Duncan'
by Carmel Morgan -- May 1, 2008, The Dennis and Phillip Ratner Museum, Bethesda, Maryland
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