After a tough week of haggling over an economic stimulus package and cabinet nominee dramas, President Barack Obama took some time to unwind on Friday night and stepped out for a dance show with his family. Obama, first lady Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia attended a 50th anniversary celebration performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.
Date Night for President and First Lady Obama came Friday night as the two visited the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to take in "Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater At 50 -- A Golden Anniversary Celebration."
The audience at the sold out show greeted the Obamas with raucous applause as the first family waved from a red VIP box decorated with the presidential seal.
The Ailey company is a celebrated predominantly African-American modern dance troop founded in 1958.
The group has performed for estimated 21 million people in 71 countries.
The Kennedy Center program describes the show -- which was sold-out -- as "One of America's cultural ambassadors to the world, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater marks its 50th anniversary of bringing African American cultural expression and the American modern dance tradition to the world's stages." Tickets cost from $30 to $89.
Another theater at the Kennedy Center hosted the premiere of the documentary "Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny," produced by Republican activist David Bossie along with Newt and Calista Gingrich.
Bossie's previous film, "HYPE: The Obama Effect," was a less glowing assessment of the Illinois pol. Gingrich recently said that by trying to be both bipartisan and partisan, President Obama resembled President Carter.
No word if there were any run-ins over Jujubes at the refreshment stand.
After their date night on Friday, the Obamas will go to Camp David on Saturday for their first visit to the presidential retreat outside Washington.
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