Inspirational Video of the Week: Love Stories - Choreography by Judith Jamison with Robert Battle

This video is appropriate for all ages and of special interest to students in Advanced Jazz, Modern, Ballet and Contemporary.

I struggled to pick a video to feature this week. I've been watching SO many on YouTube! In the end I went with Love Stories danced by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. They are positively one of my favorite companies to watch, I've seen them many times live and they never disappoint!

This video is only small excerpts from Love Stories. In its entirety it has many individual pieces. I love the colorful/playful nature of this piece. It showcases the dancers' technique without being stuffy. There is one point where the dancers are basically having a dance off and, in the version that I saw, one female dancer booty shakes like you have never seen before! You think that all of her limbs are going to come flying off before she finishes, it's incredible! (And unfortunately not on this video!) Enjoy!