Whitney Signs: Edges of Ailey Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 3:30–6 pm

Whitney Signs: Edges of Ailey

Sat, Jan 25, 2025
3:30–6 pm

A black- and- white image of a group of dancers standing onstage with their arms stretched towards the ceiling.
A black- and- white image of a group of dancers standing onstage with their arms stretched towards the ceiling.

Jack Mitchell, Alvin Ailey, Myrna White, James Truitte, Ella Thompson, Minnie Marshall, and Don Martin in “Revelations,”", 1961. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. © Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. and Smithsonian Institution

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This event is free but registration is required. If you have not registered, we cannot add you to the tour day of. Due to a limited capacity, this program is Deaf-priority, and we do not allow ASL students to attend.

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Floor 5

Join us for an in-person tour of Edges of Ailey led by Deaf educator and dancer Alexandria Wailes in American Sign Language. The event begins with a tour at 3:30 pm and will be followed by movement exercises and a wine and cheese reception from 5–6 pm in the Kaufman Gallery. Please plan to meet in the lobby at 3:30 pm. 

This tour will be in ASL and will not have voice interpretation. To request interpretation for Tactile, Protactile, International Sign Language, another language, or additional accommodations, including Braille, please email accessfeedback@whitney.org or call (646) 666-5574 (relay calls welcome) with two weeks’ notice.


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