Alvin Ailey Dance Class: AileyDance for Active Aging
Oct 15–Nov 21, 2024
Photos by Filip Wolak. Ailey Arts In Education & Community Programs AileyDance for Active Aging Workshop Tuesday, October 15, 2024. Whitney Museum
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Floor 3, Theater
October 15 at 11 am–12 pm
November 20 at 11 am–12 pm
November 21 at 11 am–12 pm
Everyone can dance! Join us for a class and conversation about Alvin Ailey’s masterwork Revelations. After a warm-up for both seated and standing individuals, participants will learn modified excerpts of Revelations, which still resonates more than sixty years after its premiere.
Alvin Ailey said, “Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.” Believing in the transformative power of movement, AileyDance for Active Aging provides classes for older adults that support strength, balance, and flexibility while offering an outlet for artistic expression.
Instructors
Amos Machanic, Jr. is currently a Teaching Artist with Ailey Arts In Education & Community Programs. Machanic studied dance at the New World School of the Arts and continued his training at The Ailey School where he was a fellowship recipient. Machanic was a member of Ailey II and joined the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1996. During his years with the Company, Machanic had the pleasure of traveling across the globe. In 2010, he performed at the White House tribute to Judith Jamison and now enjoys being a freelance artist and teacher.
Rachel Watson-Jih is currently a teaching artist for Ailey Arts In Education & Community Programs. She began her dance training at the age of four in Raleigh, North Carolina. After attending the University of North Carolina School of the Arts summer dance program in 2008, she was recruited to attend school there where she received her BFA in contemporary dance in 2012. Rachel has performed at Lincoln Center Outdoors and Joe’s Pub with Mark Dendy, Karen Harvey Dances, Mari Meade Dance Collective, and apprenticed with Camille A. Brown and Dancers. She made her Public Theater debut in Eve’s Song in 2018 and joined Company SBB in 2019. Rachel is the founder and Artistic Director of Blue Morph Collective.