Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Lincoln Center Festival 2000 will present the acclaimed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) in two programs, Tuesday, July 25 through Sunday, July 30 in the New York State Theater, performed to live music and highlighted by a world premiere work by company Artistic Director, Judith Jamison.

Program A: Grace, music: Duke Ellington, Roy Davis, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, choreography: Ronald K. Brown; World premiere by Judith Jamison; Revelations, music: traditional, choreography: Alvin Ailey

Program B: All Ailey Program: Blues Suite, music: traditional; Memoria, music: Keith Jarrett (Runes-Solara March); Pas de Duke, music: Duke Ellington; Revelations, music: traditional

Program A will feature the Jamison world premiere; Ronald K. Brown's Grace, which premiered earlier this season to triumphant reviews; and the Company's signature classic, Alvin Ailey's groundbreaking Revelations. Program B is an all Alvin Ailey celebration including some of the visionary choreographer's most acclaimed works: Blues Suite, one of Ailey's earliest works, danced at the Company's New York debut performance in March 1958; Memoria, which Ailey created in 1979 as a celebration of the life of his good friend, choreographer Joyce Trisler who had died earlier that year; Pas de Duke, the virtuoso jazz pas de deux, created in 1976 for Judith Jamison and Mikhail Baryshnikov; and Revelations.

AAADT appeared at the inaugural Lincoln Center Festival in 1996 where they performed the premiere of Sweet Release, a collaboration between Judith Jamison and Wynton Marsalis, commissioned by the Festival and performed by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. The work subsequently entered the Ailey Company repertoire.