Here’s some Monday news to rock your soul: An upcoming Fox Searchlight film about the life of Alvin Ailey just got even more enticing—Barry Jenkins, the filmmaker who won an Oscar for Moonlight, has signed on as director. It feels like quite a fitting hire. Back in 2017, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater artistic director […]
Sure, we love a good over-the-top music video. But sometimes it’s refreshing to find one that goes back to basics. And that’s why we’re obsessed with Grace VanderWaal’s new music video, “Moonlight.” Relying solely on the song’s unique sound and some phenomenal choreography by Kristin McQuaid (whose work has appeared on “So You Think You […]
The brilliant, critically acclaimed Moonlight is a piece of virtuosic filmmaking (hence its eight Oscar nominations)—and now it’s inspired a work of dance virtuosity. Moonlight x Ailey , a collaboration between Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater artistic director Robert Battle and composer Nicholas Britell, who created the score for the feature film, is two minutes […]