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    Alvin Ailey Jr. (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American...
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    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 Ailey...
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    Ailey is a city in Montgomery County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 519, up from 432 in 2010. A post office...
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  • Ailey is a 2021 American documentary film, directed by Jamila Wignot, which follows the life of dancer Alvin Ailey. It had its world premiere at the Sundance...
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    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...
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    in on April 24, 2012. Ailey is named for the American dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey, who lived from 1931 to 1989. Ailey is a fresh crater with...
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    dancer and choreographer. She is the artistic director emerita of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Judith Jamison was born in 1943 to Tessie Brown...
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    Craig Ailey is a villa at Cove, originally named Italian Villa. The site above a craig (cliff) gives views over the Firth of Clyde and its junction with...
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  • 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...
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    USA) is a dancer, choreographer and the former Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Originally from the Liberty City community of Miami...
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  • 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, Person...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • nephew, Rodnell Collins. He wrote Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey in 1995 based on interviews he conducted with the choreographer in the years...
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  • - May, 2015) was an American modern dancer who performed with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 1964 to 2005. Dudley Eugene Williams was born...
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  • Alvin Ailey's 'Memoria'". Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. 27 June 2023. Retrieved 13 August 2024. Dunning, Jennifer (3 December 1979). "Dance: Ailey Homage...
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  • 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 2020...
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  • dancer, choreographer and was the associate artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) from 1991 to 2020. Chaya was born and trained...
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  • was 17, she moved from Ottawa, Ontario to New York City to train at The Ailey School. She dropped out after 5 months to begin her professional career...
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    Target, Credo Beauty, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, The Brooklyn Museum, and CLAIM. Her collaboration with Alvin Ailey to commemorate International...
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  • American dance educator who served as the director of the Ailey School of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 1984 until her death. Jefferson...
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    Channel High School in 1982, they received scholarships to attend the Alvin Ailey Dance School. They went on to study acting at The Acting Studio - New York...
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  • an American professional dancer, most known for his work with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Bozeman grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn...
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    original on April 14, 2010. Retrieved July 10, 2011. "Group Visits". Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. Archived from the original on May 13, 2011. Retrieved...
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  • American dancer and choreographer who is currently a member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Boykin was born in Durham, North Carolina, where...
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  • multiple generations of an African-American family. The novel's protagonist is Ailey Pearl Garfield. While her grandmother wants her to follow the family tradition...
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    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...
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    danced as a lead dancer until her departure for New York City with Alvin Ailey in 1954. Like all of Horton's students, she studied other art forms, including...
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  • September 2016. Bailey, A. Peter. Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey. Carol Publishing Group, 1995. ISBN 978-0-8065-1861-9 Carter, Curtis. "Improvisation...
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  • Rachael McLaren is a Canadian dancer who performed with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. McLaren was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was the...
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