The excitement of dancing with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater just pours out of Rachael McLaren. SacPress reached McLaren by phone recently while she waited for another flight on the current Alvin Ailey North American tour. She will be dancing with Alvin Ailey in Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center April 5th and 6th. McLaren began by talking about dance. “Dance comes from the people.” “(It is) human connections-celebrating together.” Rachael McLaren started dancing when she was five years old. She was always all about movement, bouncing around the house. She grew up watching her hometown, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, where she would eventually go on to study. At first, it was all about

Let's just say that you bought tickets to your favorite musical but had to sit in the back because those were the only seats available for a wheelchair user. Or you're a woman who needed to use the bathroom at intermission, but the lines were so long you had to miss the first 10 minutes of the second act. If you've been to the Community Center Theatre since it opened in 1974, you could have experienced a problem of this sort, said Convention Center Manager Judy Goldbar. Luckily, those are two major issues that a proposed $40 million renovation seeks to address. The theater, run by the Sacramento Convention Center, hosts a number of local and touring productions, including Broadway Sacrame