After 10 years at the helm of Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, choreographer Robert Battle says, “I know I’m right where I’m supposed to be.”
Robert Battle was around 13 years old when he first saw dancers perform a work by the pioneering Black choreographer Alvin Ailey. “It was a revelation,” he recalls. As a bullied child with artistic ambitions, he found it dazzling to see people who looked like him earn applause for telling the story of the African-American experience through movement. “I understood that what was going on was deeper than entertainment,” he says.
Never did Mr. Battle imagine that he would one day lead Ailey’s company, the internationally acclaimed Alvin Ailey Dance Theater . “That wasn’t even on my radar,” he says over video from his home in Manhattan, near the company’s midtown studios.
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