Prayers from the Edge

Profound images that Lynne Taylor-Corbett witnessed while on tour with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Africa and the Middle East immediately following the Six Day War provide the inspiration for her creation. This powerful, thought-provoking dance work, set to Peter Gabriel's “Passion,” brings the choreographer-director's experiences in theater, ballet, and film to bear on the Ailey dancers' commanding physical and dramatic skills. Taylor-Corbett, well-known by audiences for her Tony award-nominated work on the Broadway musical Swing!, has been praised by Dance Magazine for her choreography's "unbridled energy, vivid emotions, and joyous theatricality."