Alvin Ailey Jr. (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) is a modern dance company based in New York City. It was founded in 1958 by choreographer and dancer Alvin...

best-known 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...

USA) is a dancer, choreographer and the former Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Originally from the Liberty City community of...

American dancer and choreographer. She is the artistic director emerita of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Judith Jamison was born in 1943 to Tessie Brown...

1938 - May, 2015) was an American modern dancer who performed with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 1964 to 2005. Dudley Eugene Williams was...

dancer from Washington, D.C., who performed as a Principal Dancer of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She began her dance training in classical ballet...

Ailey is an 2021 American documentary film, directed by Jamila Wignot, which follows the life of dancer Alvin Ailey. It had its world premiere at the...

concert and theater dance. In 1958, Ailey and a group of young African-American dancers performed as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York...

principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and former artistic director of AAADT's second company, Ailey 2. Powell was fired in July...

and Adalwin. Alvin Adams (1804–1877, early 19th-century American businessman Alvin Ailey, African-American choreographer and activist Alvin Burke, Jr. (born...

Andy Warhol, for being too feminine. In the world of New York dance, Alvin Ailey (b. 1931) fused theater, modern dance, ballet, and jazz with black vernacular...

Louis Armstrong, Lonnie Donegan, Peter Paul & Mary and Elvis Presley. Alvin Ailey made "Rocka My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham" the music for the triumphant...

September 2016. Bailey, A. Peter. Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey. Carol Publishing Group, 1995. ISBN 978-0-8065-1861-9 Carter, Curtis...

York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 21 October 2019. "Corey Baker". Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. 4 March 2016. Archived from the original on 22...

(December 10, 1989). "Alvin Ailey: Believer in the Power of Dance". The New York Times. Crabb, Michael (January 30, 2019). "For Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, the...

December 25 in Tel-Aviv) was an American dancer, a leading member of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Ohad Naharin Dance Company, and the Batsheva...

13 different choreographers, including Jerome Robbins, Glen Tetley, Alvin Ailey, and Twyla Tharp. "It doesn't matter if every ballet is a success or...

American actress and dancer. She attended and trained as a dancer at the Alvin Ailey Dance Center and the Martha Graham School of Dance. She is known mainly...

graduating from high school, they each received scholarships to attend the Alvin Ailey Dance School. They both went on to study acting at the Acting Studio...

important dance photographers of the 20th century. He photographed the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for three decades, producing a body of work that...

according to the University of Tennessee's Library of Music. In 1960, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performed their signature ballet Revelations,...

Rachael McLaren is a Canadian dancer who performed with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. McLaren was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was the...

Juilliard School, School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Since 2010, the Waterwell Drama Program (WDP)...

dance as an inspiration, among these are the Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Katherine Dunham...

worked with eminent dancers such as Rudolf Nureyev, Maurice Béjart and Alvin Ailey, and in 1990 he became dance director of the Paris Opera Ballet, succeeding...

she danced as a lead dancer until her departure for New York City with Alvin Ailey in 1954. Like all of Horton's students, de Lavallade studied other art...

Theatre of Harlem. She is currently the co-director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Ailey School, with Tracy Inman. Born in Jackson, Mississippi...

directors for the New York City Ballet and the board of trustees for the Alvin Ailey Dance Company. In 2016 she co-chaired the New York City Ballet Fall Fashion...

other-worldly, often made with found objects. He also trained as a dancer with Alvin Ailey and often incorporates dance and performance into his works. His later...