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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Nashville, TN

Ailey in Nashville, TN

Feb 21 - 22

Location

  • Tennessee Performing Arts Center
  • 505 Deaderick Street
  • Nashville, TN
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Join Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, TN as the extraordinary dancers ignite the stage in three performances featuring electrifying new works and cherished audience favorites. The company’s first major performance season helmed by Artistic Director Alicia Graf Mack is not to be missed!

Experience four premieres from the company: Matthew Neenan’s Difference Between, Medhi Walerski’s Blink of an Eye, Fredrick Earl Mosley’s Embrace, and Jamar Roberts’ Song of the Anchorite (a reimagining of Alvin Ailey’s Hermit Songs). The season also features a new production of Judith Jamison’s moving duet A Case of You, Ronald K. Brown’s blockbuster Grace, and Alvin Ailey’s masterpiece Revelations, the ultimate anthem to resilience and joy.

The inaugural season helmed by AILEY's new Artistic Director Alicia Graf Mack, in collaboration with Associate Artistic Director Matthew Rushing, takes audiences in exhilarating new directions, inspiring returning fans and first-timers alike. 


Programs, casting, and prices are subject to change without notice.

Schedule

Repertory This Season

Sponsors

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 2026 Global Tour Sponsor


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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 2026 US Tour is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts

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