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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Judith Jamison (section Return to Alvin Ailey Dance Theater as Artistic Associate and Artistic Director)
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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Robert Battle (section Alvin Ailey)
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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Melanie Person (section Leading The Ailey School)
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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Dudley Williams (dancer) (section With Alvin Ailey)
- 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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Troy Powell (section Director of Ailey 2)
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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