Macy’s Hosts an Alvin Ailey Discussion Tonight
If you’re unable to make today’s lunchtime Chinese New Year celebration at Macy’s Downtown Crossing or even Paris Hilton’s Harvard Lampoon ceremony over in Cambridge, Macy’s just might have something more appropriate for you later in the evening.
At 6pm, the Downtown Crossing branch of the retailer will welcome Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Artistic Director Judith Jamison and dancers Renee Robinson and Kirven J. Boyd for a Black History Month-related event on the Main Level.
Although the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is scheduled to perform at the City Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre from February 7–10, tonight’s event will be much more relaxed. The dance company representatives will offer personal insight into founder Alvin Ailey’s legacy and the history of his widely respected, world-famous company, as well as its relationship with Boston.
The store will then serve refreshments after the discussion is over and will also give attendees the rare opportunity to meet the dancers in the flesh. I don’t know about everybody else, but that sounds like a darn fine time to me, and for free to boot. You can’t beat it.
Who knew Macy’s was such a hotbed of culture and interesting free events? I didn’t, or maybe I just haven’t been paying close enough attention when I’m in there shopping.
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