The Ailey/Fordham BFA in Dance Benefit Concert
Monday, March 3, 2025
Layla Barber, FCLC ’26
2025 Denise Jefferson Scholar
Photo by Nir Aireli
5:30 p.m. Reception
7 p.m. Performance
Ailey Citigroup Theater
405 W 55th Street | NYC
For more than 25 years, hundreds of professional dancers, teachers, lawyers, and nonprofit leaders have benefited from this unique partnership has been defined by an equal emphasis on both world-class dance training and a rigorous liberal arts education.
All proceeds benefit the Denise Jefferson Memorial Scholarship Fund, an artistic merit scholarship that supports students like Layla for whom the opportunity to study in the BFA program may otherwise not be possible.
The 2025 performance will pay tribute to the late Judith Jamison, artistic director emerita of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, celebrating her extraordinary use of dance to honor the past, embrace the present, and boldly envision the future.
For more information about the Ailey/Fordham BFA in Dance Benefit Concert please contact The Office of Special Events at [email protected].