Sarah Daley and Yannick Lebrun perform in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s “Revelations” on March 2, 2022.
In one way or another the driving force in all of Battle’s wonderfully varied work is the rhythm, which also becomes the key to his storytelling. And those rhythms run the gamut from a contemporary classical score by John Mackey, to composer-singer Sheila Chandra’s hybrid of pop and Indian kathak beats. They also include recordings by Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Wynton Marsalis and opera diva Leontyne Price.
Next up, and with a terrific change of mood, was “Ella,” set to her recording of “Air Mail Special ,” one of Fitzgerald’s most phenomenal scat-singing and rhythmically breathtaking escapades, and here featuring marvelous dancing by Ghrai DeVore-Stokes along with James Gilmer, Brandon Michael Woolridge and Lloyd A. Boyd III.
There was more, too, including a knockout solo performance by the impossibly fleet and precision-tuned Kanji Segawa whose razor-sharp “physical diction” matched the fascinating rhythmic beats of Sheila Chandra’s verbally percussive “Speaking In Tongues II.”
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