Ailey Trio - 2016
With Ailey Dancers: Marcus Jarrell Willis, Demetia Hopkins, Kanji Segawa
The Ailey Trio was started in 1992.
They are on the road visiting school and giving performance wherever they go.
They talk about being dancers, Alvin Ailey, about the company,
about dance and bring the audience on stage with them.These pictures are from The GEM Theater, Thursday January 14, 2016.
Presented by Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey
http://www.kcfaa.org
Demetia Hopkins in "Cry"
Kanji Segawa in "Takademe"
Marcus Jarrell Willis
Marcus Jarrell Willis
The Audience, on stage
Audience on stage from upstage
Demetia Hopkins
Harlan Brownlee, new Chief Executive Office of KCFAA, Previously head of ArtsKC
Relevé food table in the studio, after the ribbon cutting and naming
Scott Berghaus (left, Bank of America) and Roger C. Williams Jr Ed. D. (right, Board President)
cut the ribbons to the studio door after a brief ceremony marking a donation from
BOA to KCFAA renaming the studio to the David T. Beals III Studio at 18th and Vine.
Kendra Kemp, KCFAA Director of Marketing & Communications trades pictures with me
KCFAA Relevé members talk with the Ailey Trio dancers (from left: Kanji Segawa, Demetia Hopkins, Marcus Jarrell Willis).
Board Member Siobhan McLaughlin Lesley is on the right
See also: http://www.kcfaa.org
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