Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Antonio Douthit-Boyd and Linda Celeste Sims perform in a new production of Alvin Ailey’s THE RIVER (photo by Paul Kolnik)
New York City Center
130 West 56th St. between Sixth & Seventh Aves.
December 4 – January 5, $25-$135; 40% off select performances with code ALYFRI
212-581-1212
www.alvinailey.org
www.nycitycenter.org
Next week, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to City Center for its annual holiday season, its twenty-fifth since Alvin Ailey passed away on December 1, 1989. As a special one-day-only Black Friday special, tickets for select performances are being discounted up to forty percent by using the promo code ALYFRI, available online from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm, by phone 11:00 am to 8:00 pm, and at the box office 12 noon to 8:00 (where there is no service charge). Running December 4 to January 5, the 2013-14 season, the third under artistic director Robert Battle, is chock-full of company classics and exciting new commissions. Back again are such recent additions as Rennie Harris’s Home, Ohad Naharin’s dazzling Minus 16, Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort, Kyle Abraham’s Another Night, Ronald K. Brown’s breathtaking Grace, Battle’s Strange Humors and In/Side, and Paul Taylor’s Arden Court. This year’s world premieres include Aszure Barton’s LIFT, Wayne McGregor’s Chroma (featuring music by Jack White), Bill T. Jones’s D-Man in the Waters (Part I), and Brown’s Four Corners, along with new productions of Ailey’s Pas De Duke and The River. Most performances conclude, of course, with the Ailey mainstay Revelations, several with live music.