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ABOUT THE COMPANY |
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Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company
was founded in 1972 with the primary mission of expanding opportunities to
provide a platform for multi-cultural choreographers and dance artists and
is an example of the best of the American melting pot. The main techniques
employed are modern and the richness in background is such that the audience
is treated to many different styles and influences. The dances range from
urban life to that of tribal influence, from abstract to the dramatic. The company takes
pride in treating its audience to an energetic, uplifting, cultural, and all
around entertaining experience filled with passion. Jennifer Dunning of the
New York Times said Alpha Omega “has a quiet but unignorable voice…that
intensity is consistent with the company’s very fine dancing which brims
with ardor even at its most abstractly physical.” Alpha Omega’s
extensive performance history includes local, national and international
engagements at venues such as Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Alice Tully
Hall, Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, Smithsonian Institute, Queens
Theater on the Park, Aaron Davis Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture, Lehman College, Florida A&M
University, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood Florida, King Arts Complex
in Columbus Ohio, and a tour of Southern Italy. Alpha Omega has also
participated in various festivals including Dancer’s Responding to Aids, the
Charlotte Dance Festival, Women In Dance at DTW, Fiorello Festival Dance Now
at LaGuardia Concert Hall, Downtown Dance Festival at the World Trade
Center, Dance Theater of Harlem’s Street Festival and Open House Series,
Fourth Arts Block Festival, the Winter and Summer Dance Mobile Series, DCA’s
Midday Series, NuDance Now Festival and NY Family Arts Festival at the
Theatre of Riverside Church, Dance Harlem, and the Battery Dance Festival. Other notable
performances include the AFTRA and SAG celebration of African Americans in
Television and Film, a DOW Chemical Industrial, and the Jerry Lewis
Telethon.
TOURING PROGRAM
APAP 2010 Conference
attendees please visit us at Booth #225 in Rhinelander In addition to its critically acclaimed repertory
favorites, Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company will feature the work of
master choreographer Eleo Pomare.
Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company has had a long history with Eleo Pomare
having performed selections of his work since 1989. The works include
Tabernacle,
Blues for the Jungle,
Narcissus Rising,
Hex and
Radeau (Raft).
In
its upcoming touring season the company includes a program that celebrates
the work of the late master choreographer whose works are a reflection of
his international experiences and broad humanistic perspective. Pomare’s
artistry has been featured from the American Dance Festival stage to ‘Free
to Dance’ the PBS Dance in America documentary film. His numerous awards
include the Kennedy Center Masters of African-American Choreography, the
James Baldwin Award, and he was added to the archives of
The History Makers.
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