Matthew Rushing – Sacred Songs: A Journey of the Spiritual

Presented as part of Edges of Ailey, Sacred Songs is a concert of dance and music dedicated to and inspired by the legacy of Alvin Ailey’s masterpiece Revelations. In its first performance in 1958, Revelations was presented as a full-length dance theater work, consisting of 16 sections sung by a chorus and danced by the founding members of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Revelations was soon commissioned to go on tour and as a result needed to be condensed, hence our present version. In Sacred Songs, the omitted songs from the original production of Revelations will be resurrected and reimagined to speak to our present need of lament, faith, and joy.