Adagio for a Dead Soldier

Geoffrey Holder originally created Adagio for a Dead Soldier in 1964 and revived it for Judith Jamison in 1970 prior to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s tour to North Africa and the Soviet Union. It is a dance of mourning, danced by the grieving widow of a soldier who perished in war. The ballet was not approved for Soviet audiences by the Russian Cultural Council in New York and therefore, was not performed during the tour.