Music to Dance To: Music that Inspired Alvin Ailey with Jazz at Lincoln Center Sun, Oct 13, 2024, 11:30 am

Music to Dance To: Music that Inspired Alvin Ailey with Jazz at Lincoln Center

Sun, Oct 13, 2024
11:30 am

Families Free Second Sundays
A live jazz performance by Jazz at Lincoln Center musicians at the Whitney Museum. The band, featuring a saxophonist, bassist, pianist, drummer, and vocalist, performs on a stage in front of a large glass window overlooking the city. An audience of families, including children, sits on the floor, enjoying the music in an intimate and relaxed setting.
A live jazz performance by Jazz at Lincoln Center musicians at the Whitney Museum. The band, featuring a saxophonist, bassist, pianist, drummer, and vocalist, performs on a stage in front of a large glass window overlooking the city. An audience of families, including children, sits on the floor, enjoying the music in an intimate and relaxed setting.

Jazz at Lincoln Center performing at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 2024. Photograph by Filip Wolak

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Floor 3, Theater

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Join us as we welcome back our friends from Jazz at Lincoln Center to guide us through the musical inspirations that shaped Alvin Ailey’s groundbreaking approach to dance and choreography.

In celebration of Edges of Ailey, the first large-scale museum exhibition honoring the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey, this special concert will explore the music that inspired his iconic works—from spirituals to the blues.

Let the music move you as we honor Ailey’s legacy and profound impact on the world of dance and beyond.

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