Auditorium Theatre 2018-19 Issue 3 Alvin Ailey

Edmonds Learning Center. He later joined Creative Outlet, and was granted full scholarships at the Joffrey Ballet School and Dance Theatre of Harlem. Mr. Bozeman is agold-medal recipient of theNAACPACT- SO Competition in Dance. He performed in Elton John and Tim Rice’s Broadway musical Aida (international tour in China) and was a part of Philadanco, Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dance Theater, and Ailey II. During the fall of 2016, Mr. Bozeman performed as a guest artist with The Royal Ballet, and Dance Magazine nominated him as one of “25 to Watch” in 2018. Mr. Bozeman recently received a bachelor’s degree in psychology, concentrating in industrial organization, from Argosy University. Mr. Bozeman joined the Company in 2013. Instagram: @Jeroboamb. CLIFTON BROWN (Goodyear, AZ) began his dance training at Take 5 DanceAcademy and continued in the first class of theAiley/FordhamBFAProgram in Dance. Mr. Brown began his professional career when he joined theAiley company in 1999 and served as choreographic assistant to Judith Jamison. He has also dancedwith Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance and Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, and was a founding member and rehearsal director for Jessica Lang Dance. He was nominated in the UK for a Critics Circle National Dance Award for Best Male Dancer and received a Black Theater Arts Award as well as a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie). As a guest artist, Mr. Brown has performed with Miami City Ballet, Rome Opera Ballet, Nevada Ballet, and Parsons Dance Company. He has set the work of Alvin Ailey, Earl Mosley, and Jessica Lang on various companies around the world. Television appearances as a guest artist include So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars . He has had the privilege of performing at theWhite House for President Obama. Mr. Brown rejoined the Company in 2017. KHALIACAMPBELL (Bronx, NY) is a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music &Art and PerformingArts. She began her formal dance training at Uptown DanceAcademy. Ms. Campbell also studied at Dance Theatre of Harlem and as a scholarship student at The Ailey School. In 2012 Ms. Campbell was a part of the international tour of the musical Aida . She has performed with Kymera Dance, Dance Iquail, and in the 40th anniversary of The Wiz at Summerstage. Ms. Campbell also danced as a guest artist with Richard Siegal’s Ballet of Difference in Munich, Germany. In 2016 she was featured in the Christian Dior commercial for the fragrance Poison. She was a member of Ailey II and joined the Company in 2018. SARAH DALEY-PERDOMO (South Elgin, IL) began her training at the Faubourg School of Ballet in Illinois under the direction of Watmora Casey and Tatyana Mazur. She is a 2009 graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFAProgram in Dance. Mrs. Daley- Perdomo trained at institutions such as the Kirov Academy, National Ballet School of Canada, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and intensives at Ballet Camp Illinois and Ballet Adriatico in Italy. She is a recipient of a Youth America Grand Prix Award and an ARTS Foundation Award. She was a member of Ailey II and joined the Company in 2011. GHRAI DeVORE (Washington, DC) began her formal dance training at the Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center and was a scholarship student at The Ailey School. She has completed summer programs at the Kirov Academy, Ballet Chicago, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, and Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Ms. DeVore was a member of Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater 2, Hubbard Street 2, Dance Works Chicago, and Ailey II. She has received theDanishQueen IngridScholarship of Honor and the Dizzy Feet Foundation Scholarship, and she was a 2010 nominee for the first annual Clive Barnes Award. Ms. DeVore joined the Company in 2010. SOLOMON DUMAS (Chicago, IL) was introduced todance throughAileyCamp.He later beganhis formal training at The Chicago Academy for the Arts and the Russell Talbert Dance Studio, where he received his most influential training. Mr. Dumas studied at New World School of the Arts and was a fellowship Level 1 student at The Ailey School. He has performed with companies including Garth Fagan Dance; Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company; and Labyrinth Dance Theater, and was a member of Ailey II. Mr. Dumas joined the Company in 2016. SAMANTHA FIGGINS (Washington, DC) began dancing at Duke Ellington School of the Arts under the tutelage of Charles Auggins and Sandra Fortune-Greene and attended summer intensives at Dance Theatre of Harlem under the direction of Arthur Mitchell. She continued her education at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. There, she performed works by George Balanchine, Bill T. Jones, Paul Taylor, and Twyla Tharp. Upon graduating cum laude, Ms. Figgins became a member of Complexions Contemporary Ballet, performing works by Dwight Rhoden, Jae Man Joo, and Camille A. Brown. She also performed at the 2014 DanceOpen Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. Ms. Figgins was featured both on the cover of Dance Spirit magazine and in Pointe magazine’s “10 Careers to Watch” in 2013. She has worked with Beyoncé and can be seen in the film Enemy Within alongside Tiler Peck and Matthew Rushing. Ms. Figgins joined the Company in 2014. VERNARD J. GILMORE (Chicago, IL) began his training at Curie Performing and Creative Arts WHO'S WHO IN THE COMPANY