A forward-looking hip-hop ballet " just the thing to celebrate Alvin Ailey Dance's 50th in Chicago
The first time Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performed at the Auditorium Theatre was Feb. 11, 1969. "Mr. Ailey is right up with the times," wrote Tribune critic Thomas Willis of the company's founder, Alvin Ailey. What Willis didn't know then was that, 50 years later, the Alvin Ailey American...