Founded by pioneering choreographer Alvin Ailey in 1974, Ailey II has been pairing the talent of early-career dancers with emerging choreographers to shape the next generation of modern dance for the past 50 years. In Revelations, his seminal work, Ailey incorporates African American spirituals, song-sermons, gospel music, and holy blues to plumb the nadir of grief and the apex of joy felt within the soul. This 1960 masterwork is inspired by the choreographer’s youth spent in the Baptist Church and rural Texas.
Wednesday 10/9. $30–50, 7pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. theparamount.net