Ailey, Coyaba, Edgeworks and City Ballet

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is on stage all week at the Kennedy Center Opera House bringing down the house with Ailey’s spirit-infused  “Revelations” and other rep, including Bejart’s “Firebird,” Camille Brown’s “The Groove to Nobody’s Business,” Tharp’s “The Golden Section” and other company standards.

The Washington Ballet's "7x7: Love Duets" runs through March 9, in the white box England Studio Theater at its home on Wisconsin Avenue. These intimate performances feature short new works often by contemporary choreographers. The hook: seven choreographers, seven pieces, each about seven minutes long. This year D.C.-based solo artist Nejla Yatkin contributes a work, as does the company's own Jared Nelson. Other contributing dancemakers include: Mark Dendy, Nicolo Fonte, Adam Hougland, Edwaard Liang and Stephen Mills. 

At Dance Place, resident company Coyaba Dance Theater, under the direction of Sylvia Soumah, performs traditional and contemporary West African dances.

At the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Donna Uchizono presents a free lec/dem discussing her artistic process on Saturday at 2:00 p.m.

On Wednesday at 5:30 -– early -- Helanius Wilkins’ Edgeworks Dance Theater performs excerpts from “Cold Case,” part of its Negro Dance Theater Project, at the Arts Club of Washington on 20th and I Streets, NW. A discussion with the choreographer follows.

And the New York City Ballet, on the heels of its New York winter season, comes by with two programs beginning on Wednesday through Sunday night at the Kennedy Center Opera House. Here’s the casting as of this past Friday –- only for  balletomanes in the house -- otherwise stop reading now:

WEDNESDAY EVENING , FEBRUARY 28, 7:30 P.M.
“Serenade”: Kistler, Borree, Mearns, Askegard, Hanna
“Moves”: Krohn, J. Angle
“Symphony in C”: First Movement: A. Stafford, J. Stafford
Second Movement: Whelan, Neal
Third Movement: Bouder, Millepied; Fourth Movement: Peck, Suozzi

THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 7:30 P.M.
”Serenade”: Kistler, Borree, Mearns, Askegard, Hanna
“Moves”: Krohn, J. Angle
“Symphony in C”: First Movement: A. Stafford, J. Stafford
Second Movement: Whelan, Neal
Third Movement: Bouder, Millepied; Fourth Movement: Peck, Suozzi

FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 29, 7:30 P.M.
“Carousel (A Dance)”: Peck, Woetzel
“Zakouski”: Borree, Millepied  [Moredock, Nikkanen]
“Agon”: Whelan, Evans, Suozzi, Krohn, Tinsley-Williams, Reichlen, T. Angle, Ramasar
“The Concert”: *Hyltin, Higgins, Piskin, Laracey, Pazcoguin, Veyette, Muller, Laurent, Peiffer, J. Peck [McDill]

SATURDAY MATINEE, MARCH 1, 1:30 P.M.
“Carousel (A Dance)”: Peck, Woetzel
“Zakouski”: M. Fairchild, Veyette  [Moredock, Nikkanen]
“Agon”: Whelan, Evans, Suozzi, Krohn, Tinsley-Williams, Reichlen, T. Angle, Ramasar
“The Concert”: Hyltin, Higgins, Piskin, Laracey, Pazcoguin, Veyette, Muller, Gold, Peiffer, J. Peck  [McDill]

SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 7:30 P.M.
“Serenade”: Kistler, Borree, Mearns, Askegard, Hanna
“Moves”: Reichlen, Veyette
“Symphony in C”: First Movement: A. Stafford, J. Stafford
Second Movement: Whelan, Neal
Third Movement: Bouder, Millepied; Fourth Movement: Peck, Suozzi

SUNDAY MATINEE, MARCH 2, 1:30 P.M. “Serenade”: *Taylor, Bouder, Gilliland, Neal, la Cour
“Moves”: Reichlen, Veyette
“Symphony in C”:  First Movement: Scheller, J. Angle
Second Movement: Mearns, Askegard
Third Movement: M. Fairchild, *Garcia; Fourth Movement: Peck, T. Angle

SUNDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 7:30 P.M.
“Carousel (A Dance)”: Peck, Woetzel
“Zakouski”: Borree, Millepied  [Moredock, Nikkanen]
“Agon”: Whelan, Evans, Suozzi, Krohn, Tinsley-Williams, Reichlen, T. Angle, Ramasar
“The Concert”: Hyltin, Higgins, Piskin, Laracey, Pazcoguin, Veyette, Muller, Gold, Peiffer, J. Peck [McDill]

* First Time in Role