This June at Lincoln Center, you have two chances to see the Bold Visions program, which showcases two of this season’s World Premieres by Hope Boykin and Kyle Abraham, and culminates in Alvin Ailey's joyful masterpiece, Revelations.
r-Evolution, Dream. - Speeches and sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired this large-scale work set to a terrific jazz score by Ali Jackson and recorded narration by Tony Award winner Leslie Odom, Jr. “Always pleasing, sometimes delicious... it summons the ‘60s with swinging elegance.” –The New York Times
Untitled America – Featuring haunting music and raw interviews with ex-convicts and their families, this unflinching look at the impact of the prison system on African-Americans has movement that is “potent and explosive and wonderfully of the moment.” –The New York Times
Revelations – Alvin Ailey’s “perennially popular and consistently stirring” ballet (The Wall Street Journal) “feels especially relevant right now… an ecstatic, timeless expression of hope.” (New York Magazine)
Catch Ailey's Bold Visions program on either Saturday, June 17 at 8pm or Sunday, June 18 at 3pm.