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Members of the Company in Satyriade

Repertory

Satyriade

COMPANIES

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

CHOREOGRAPHER

Alvin Ailey

WORLD PREMIERE

New York City Center, 1982

MUSIC

Maurice Ravel

DÉCOR & COSTUMES

Carol Vollet Garner

LIGHTING

Chenault Spence

RUN TIME

11 Minutes

Set to Maurice Ravel’s “Introduction and Allegro for Harp,” Alvin Ailey’s classical ballet is set in ancient Grecian times. Three leaping satyrs court three floating nymphs and all joyously dance around an enchanted forest.

Keith McDaniel, Kevin Brown and Mari Kajiwara in Satyriade

Jack Mitchell

Mari Kajiwara, Donna Wood, Maxine Sherman in Alvin Ailey's Satyriade

Members of the Company in Satyriade

Jack Mitchell

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

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