Choreographic Works
Ella (2007)
choreographer
dancer
lighting designer
staging assistant
Creation Date
2007
Sound
Title: "Airmail Special"
Date: 1957
Type: music
Recording Artist: Sung by Ella Fitzgerald; Composed by James R. Mundy, Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian
Type: music
Identifier
00041
Description
Using a live concert recording of legendary singer Ella Fitzgerald performing the song “Airmail Special,” Ella matches the iconic singer’s virtuosic scatting with lightning-fast, articulated movement in an irresistible tour-de-force that leaves audiences (and the dancers) breathless. The high-energy comical dance was originally choreographed on No Boundaries staging assistant Marlena Wolfe. In 2016 Battle reinvented the piece as a duet for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, in anticipation of Fitzgerald’s centennial in April 2017.
Source: https://www.alvinailey.org/performances/repertory/ella
Source: https://www.alvinailey.org/performances/repertory/ella
