Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 'Odetta' honors singer, activist
At the start of "Odetta," dancer Hope Boykin, the warmest of earth mothers and costumed in fire-and-earth tones, skims alone over the stage with an undulating spine and beckoning arms as she punctuates the song, "This Little Light of Mine." In contrast, evoking a visionary partisan, Boykin...