Alvin Ailey Dance Troupe

2 Oct '10: We went to Royal Concert Hall to see a dance performance by Alvin Ailey dance troupe of New York, who have now been evolving dance for 50 years or more. AA himself died in 1989, but the rest have kept it going with some good artistic directors.
  The first section was a succession of dances based on soul music, with references to contemporary life in New York. The second section was more rhythmic with a lot of instrumental music.  The final section was very affecting as it was based on negro spirituals, and it made one think of the sufferings of the africans who were brought over in hulks to be slaves, never to return - and yet, despite the white version of christianity that permitted them to be enslaved (based on the Old Testament), the form that developed with the slaves, being mostly New Testament in nature, seems more sincere.