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Life-changing inspiration in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's third Sadler's Wells programme

By Graham Watts, 13 September 2019
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“choreography was effervescent, in colourful costumes that seemed to fizz like cascading fireworks”
Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 10 September 2019
Programme
Ounce of Faith (Darrell Grand Moultrie)
Members Don't Get Weary (Jamar Roberts)
Ella (Music by Ella Fitzgerald) (Robert Battle)
Revelations (Alvin Ailey)
Performers
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Mark Eric, Costume Designer
Khalia Campbell, Dancer
Daniel Harder, Dancer
Renaldo Maurice, Dancer
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Graham Watts
Graham Watts
Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.