Two dancers looking up holding a long piece of fabric in the air

Repertory

A Case of You

COMPANIES

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

CHOREOGRAPHER

Judith Jamison

COMPANY PREMIERE

New York City Center, 2005

ASSISTANT TO CHOREOGRAPHER

Clifton Brown

RESTAGING

Hope Boykin & Jamar Roberts

MUSIC

Joni Mitchell, Performed by Diana Krall

COSTUMES

Jon Taylor

LIGHTING

Al Crawford

RUN TIME

7 Minutes

WORLD PREMIERE

2004 (As a birthday tribute for Joan Weill)

This duet—an excerpt from Judith Jamison’s 2005 Reminiscin’—is a “steamy, emotionally intense” (The New York Times) showstopper danced to Diana Krall’s sultry rendition of the classic Joni Mitchell song.

A Case of You by Judith Jamison

[This duet] portrays obsessive, melancholic need, as the couple play out a mini-drama made up of passionate lifts, turns, and a gasp-inducing gambit in which she runs to him and lands on his thighs, sticking like Super Glue.

The Los Angeles Times

A sometimes startling, inventive and eclectically intimate dance.

The Miami Herald

A group of dancers in flesh tone dresses look up and reach their hands to the sky

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