Master Class with Ailey II’s Troy Powell

Master Class with Ailey II’s Associate Artistic Director, Troy Powell

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
6:30-8:30PM @ LWDT studio
$15 for Intermediate/Advanced/Professional dancers, ages 14-adult.

LWDT is located at 3773 S. Crenshaw Blvd., LA, CA 90016. For more information, call 323-292-LULA (5852).

Troy Powell, a native New Yorker, began his dance training at the age of nine at The Ailey School. Following his graduation from The High School of Performing Arts, he became a member of Ailey II. Mr. Powell joined Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1991. He toured throughout the United States, South America, Europe and South Africa for ten years before becoming a master teacher at The Ailey School and resident choreographer of Ailey II.

Mr. Powell has choreographed ballets for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, Dallas Black Dance Theater, National Dance Company of the Bahamas and Alaska Dance Theater. His guest artist credits include performing with companies such as Batsheva, Dallas Black Dance Theater and Complexions. Featured in an American Express commercial with AAADT, Mr. Powell has also appeared on television in George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum and the PBS Great Performances: Dance In America, A Hymn for Alvin Ailey, choreographed by Judith Jamison. Mr. Powell teaches master classes and workshops throughout the country.