About Quintet

Description

Quintet is in its way a small masterwork and one that differed significantly from other Ailey signature works before it. Like Reflections in D, the piece was an imaginative and sensitive reading of its score, and it offered yet more proof of Alvin's distinctive gift for blending serious choreography and themes with affectionate teasing of his characters. In the new piece, however, Alvin explored for the first time the private being behind a highly public face, a subject he would return to repeatedly."
- Jennifer Dunning, Alvin Ailey: A Life In Dance

 

"…these five Quintet women… communicated overlapping exultation and sadness with astonishing authority."
- Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

New York Premiere, 1968

 

Performance Schedule

There are no upcoming performances for this repertory piece.

Choreography

Restaging

Linda Kent, Michelle Murray, Renee Rose and Sylvia Waters

Music

Laura Nyro

Costumes

Matthew Cameron

Lighting

Nicola Cernovitch

First Performance

New York Premiere, 1968

Run Time

20 minutes

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