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The Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation is the largest modern and contemporary dance organization in the United States [2] and consists of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, The Ailey School, Ailey Camp, Ailey Extension, and Ailey Arts In Education and Community Programs. [43]
Alvin Ailey Jr. (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT). He created AAADT and its affiliated Alvin Ailey American Dance Center (later Ailey School) as havens for nurturing Black artists and expressing the universality of the ...
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will return to New York City Center on December 4 with its annual, five‐week holiday season, presenting world premieres and new productions by a number of ...
Revelations "Take me to the Water" performed by Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in 2011. Revelations is the best-known [1] work of the modern dance choreographer Alvin Ailey.It is also the signature work of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which premiered an extended version of the work (lasting over an hour) [2] in 1960, when Ailey was 29 years old.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, one of America's most beloved dance companies widely known as a a global ambassador of American culture having performed in 71 countries on six continents ...
Jamison began dancing for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1965, a year after meeting the company's namesake at a fruitless television audition. Ailey was Jamison's "spiritual walker, my ...
Street dancer-turned-choreographer Rennie Harris had heard the name but didn’t become interested in the Ailey movement until late in the 2000s. “I was a hardcore dancer. At that point, I
Dudley Eugene Williams was born in East Harlem, New York City, on August 18, 1938.His father was carpenter Ivan Leroy Williams and his mother Austa (nee Beckles). After his initial application for admission to the music division to study piano was submitted past the deadline date, he enrolled for dance at the High School of Performing Arts in New York, graduating in 1958.