With the rumble of a train and the toll of distant bells, a cast of vividly-drawn characters from the barrelhouses and fields of Alvin Ailey’s southern childhood are summoned to dance and revel through one long, sultry night. Ailey’s first masterpiece poignantly evokes the sorrow, humor and humanity of the blues, those heartfelt songs that he called “hymns to the secular regions of the soul.”
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Ailey II in Blues Suite, photo by Eduardo Patino, NYC
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Ailey II in Blues Suite, photo by Eduardo Patino, NYC
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Ailey II in Blues Suite, photo by Eduardo Patino, NYC