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Celebrating 60 Years of Alvin Ailey: still bringing revelations

By Gillian Ebersole, 07 April 2019
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Reviewed at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles on 7 April 2019
Programme
Members Don’t Get Weary (Jamar Roberts)
The Call (Ronald K Brown)
Shelter (Jawole Willa Jo Zollar)
Revelations (Alvin Ailey)
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Gillian Ebersole
Gillian Ebersole

Gillian Ebersole is a dancer and choreographer, as well as a poet, dance writer and educator. Gillian graduated Summa Cum Laude from Loyola Marymount University with a dual degree in Dance and English. Their first poetry book The Water Between Us received the Charlotte Mew Prize and was published by Headmistress Press in 2021. Gillian lives and creates in Berkshire County with their partner.