The modern dance representatives were the gifted Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell and Matthew Rushing from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, who performed excerpts from the classic Ailey repertoire -- Pas de Duke (1976) and the signature Revelations (1960). The first is a sassy jazz dance to sophisticated Duke Ellington music, while the latter is Ailey's paean to the triumph of black spirit and courage, set to gospel music. Fisher-Harrell has no bones, so supple and sinuous is her body, while Rushing is perfect Ailey elasticity.