AILEY’S CHOROEOGRAPHY PROBLEM

While conceding that the Alvin Ailey company has terrific dancers, New Yorker critic Joan Acocella believes the company’s choreography has never lived up to the quality of its performers. That may be changing with the addition of Ronald Brown’s work; he comes out of a Garth Fagan tradition rather than that of Ailey. The New Yorker 12/10/01