Ailey’s Ballet-Inspired Choreography
To showcase AAADT’s balletic abilities, this lyrical dance was set to Ralph Vaughan Williams’s (1872–1958) 1914 composition, “The Lark Ascending.” Vaughan Williams noted that the lark represented the heart’s rapture and the soul’s aspiration. Inspired by a poem by the Victorian writer George Meredith, it is said that Vaughan Williams wrote sketches for this work while watching troop ships cross the English Channel at the beginning of World War I.
To showcase AAADT’s balletic abilities, this lyrical dance was set to Ralph Vaughan Williams’s (1872–1958) 1914 composition, “The Lark Ascending.” Vaughan Williams noted that the lark represented the heart’s rapture and the soul’s aspiration. Inspired by a poem by the Victorian writer George Meredith, it is said that Vaughan Williams wrote sketches for this work while watching troop ships cross the English Channel at the beginning of World War I.