Ailey Jazz

Wed 5, Sat 8, Wed 12 7.30pm & Sat 15 2.30pm

New Work By Camille Brown (2007)

Choreography: Camille Brown
Music: Ray Charles
Running time: 15 mins

Named one of Dance Magazine's "25 to watch" Camille A. Brown blends modern, West African dance and ballet in an innovative style that has gained widespread acclaim and recognition for this exciting emerging choreographer, praised by The New York Times as "a force of nature".

Pas De Duke* (1976)

Choreography: Alvin Ailey
Restaged by: Masazumi Chaya
Composer: Duke Ellington

Originally created as a showcase for Judith Jamison and Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pas de Duke is Alvin Ailey's modern-dance translation of a classical pas de deux, celebrating the musical genius of Duke Ellington. Ailey's choreography brilliantly captures the exuberance of the dancers' star qualities and techniques as the duo mirror each other toe-to-toe and line-for-line in this playful, jazzy dance. The New York Times praised the work as 'one of those special dances that lives in new ways with each new set of performers"

* replaces Portrait of Billie

The Road of The Phoebe Snow (1959)

Choreography: Talley Beatty
Music: Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
Running time: 27 mins

Set to the quintessential American jazz music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, the ballet weaves a turbulent and gripping love story of young Americans from "the wrong side of the track"

The Winter in Lisbon (1992)

Choreographer: Billy Wilson
Music: Dizzy Gillespie
Running time: 26 mins

Dizzy Gillespie's brilliant music sets the tine for this sizzling, sensuous ballet celebrating four decades of his work. "A joyous dance that gives an emotional lift" Associated Press

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