Upcoming Events

FEBRUARY 2020:

• Feb 7–15: Atlanta Ballet presents “HEART/BEAT: Gospel, Brubeck & Rhythms of the City” at the Cobb Energy Center
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• Feb 20–23: The Ailey company returns to The Fox Theater for their “Ailey Revealed” season featuring the Atlanta premiere of Donald Byrd’s powerful Greenwood, which examines the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
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• Feb 22: Students can audition for The Ailey School 2020 Summer Intensive (ages 11–25) and 2020–21 School Year (ages 17–25). Auditions will be held at Atlanta Ballet.
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• Feb 22: Argentina’s Ché Malambo returns to the stage at Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University
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Past Events

January 2020:

• Jan 16: Ailey Artistic Director Robert Battle, celebrated choreographer Donald Byrd, and Fulton County Remembrance Coalition’s “Stories From the Soil” founder Allison Bantimba discussed the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which Byrd explores in his new piece Greenwood. Free and open to the public at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
• Jan 19: Reigning Victory Dance Academy presented MMX-Clear Vision concert featuring students ages 2 to 17 performing various styles of dance from ballet to hip hop

December 2019:

• Dec 7: Reigning Victory Elite Dance Academy performed in The Brown Sugar Nutcracker, presented by Ursula Smith Dance in Birmingham, AL
• Dec 7–24: Final run of performances of Atlanta Ballet’s The Nutcracker at the Fox Theatre
• Dec 14: AREA’s Holiday Showcase

October 2019:

• Oct 12 & 13: AREA partnered with Ailey Extension to offer a weekend of classes in Contemporary, Horton, and Heels taught by prominent instructors from New York City
• Oct 25: The High Museum of Art hosted two mini Ailey II performances, each followed by a Q&A
• Oct 26: Ailey II returned to the Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University
• Oct 31: Deadline for students ages 2–19 to enroll for the 2019–2020 Reigning Victory Dance Academy school year

August 2019:

• Aug 5–14: Academy Placement Classes at Reigning Victory Dance Studio

July 2019:

• July 6–27: Pre-Academy Summer Workshop classes in ballet, jazz, and modern techniques at Reigning Victory Dance Studio
• July 8–19: Summer Intensive for beginner through intermediate dancers with a focus on classical training and artistic development at Reigning Victory Dance Studio
• July 8–20: AREA Academy Kids Summer program for ages 5–16 with training in a variety of disciplines from ballet to hip-hop as well as dance history
• July 13–20: AREA Happy Kiddies summer program for ages 2–5 in ballet, kiddie bop, tap, and acro

June 2019:

• June 8: AREA presented The Greatest Show, a dance performance chronicling music and dance through history featuring students ages 2–18 at the Viola Turner Theater in East Point, GA
• June 15: Reigning Victory Dance Academy’s 8th annual Spring production, Royalty
• June 17–29: AREA Academy Kids Summer program for ages 5–16 with training in a variety of disciplines from ballet to hip-hop as well as dance history
• June 22–27: AREA Happy Kiddies summer program for ages 2–5 in ballet, kiddie bop, tap, and acro

May 2019:

• May–Aug: New outreach dance programs from Reigning Victory Dance Studio in East Point, GA at the ArtsXchange Cultural Center
• May 22–24: Original performance from T. Lang Dance created to be in conversation with the exhibition of Kara Walker’s The Jubilant Martyrs of Obsolescence and Ruin at the High Museum

April 2019:

• April 12–13: Atlanta Ballet performed in the inaugural season of performances at the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center at City Springs
• April 13–14: Atlanta Ballet 2 presented Beauty & the Beast

March 2019:

• March 9: Free Atlanta Ballet 2 performance at the Frazer Center
• March 22–23: Dance Canvas returned to the Ferst Center for a third season
• March 22–24: Atlanta Ballet presented “Look/Don’t Touch,” a program of three works

February 2019:

• Multiple dates: Atlanta Ballet Summer Intensive and Atlanta Ballet 2 audition tour
• February 16: Renowned Flamenco dancer Farruquito performed at Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University
• February 16–17: Ailey Experience workshop at Charles R. Drew Charter School
• February 21–24: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performed at the Fox Theatre