Alvin Ailey Dance Troupe To Show Off Moves Across NYC

NEW YORK CITY ? The Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation is presenting ?Ailey Moves NYC!? starting this Saturday through Aug. 1. The series is a five-borough event, according to the dance company.

The first event kicked off at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Coney Island Boardwalk with a presentation of Ailey Arts in Education?s West African Dance Family Workshop, which included live drumming.

Mayor Eric Adams will deliver remarks at 6:45 p.m. ahead of a second event, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater?s performance of its namesake?s masterpiece "Revelations" and hip-hop innovator Rennie Harris?s acclaimed "Lazarus," at 7 p.m., according to his office.

The amphitheater is located at 3052 West 21 St. in Brooklyn.

Another workshop will be held in Harlem at the Hansborough Recreation Center, located at 35 West 134 St. at 11 a.m. by Ailey Arts in Education on Monday. The Active Aging program will include former Ailey company members Amos Machanic and Rachel Watson-Jih.

A full calendar of events for the 10-day series can be accessed here.

?Everyone at Ailey is mindful that we have so much to be grateful for,? Robert Battle, artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, told Patch via email. ?Our two companies have completed their first tours since the pandemic, and our recent Lincoln Center season brought us back home for the first time since last winter. Now is the time for us to give back to the city that does so much to sustain us.

?We are offering Ailey Moves NYC! in the spirit of Mr. Ailey himself, who said, ?Dance comes from the people and should always be delivered back to the people? and in doing so we honor and carry forward his legacy.?