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Alvin Ailey

Stage Name

Birth Name

Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey

 

        African-American choreographer who would win many awards for his Choreography as well as being a dancer. Moved to Los Angeles in the early 1940s and studied dance with Catherine Dunham, Lester Horton and later with Martha Graham.

    Alvin Ailey was a very talented choreographer but suffered from depression at times, finally succumbing to AIDS on December 1, 1989. He is most famous for his dance troupe, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater founded in 1958 and teaching dance to inner city kids.

    I have seen this dance group in person and they are fantastic. Today the Alvin Ailey Dance theatre travels all around the world and even danced on "So You Think You Can Dance" which

was a big hit. There is so much written on the net about this man and his legacy I won't be able to offer much here... So if your looking for more info, try here first ... Alvin Ailey Org.

Burial place: Rose Hills Memorial Park Whittier (Los Angeles County) CA, USA.

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

Rogers, Texas 1/5/1931 - 12/1/1989 n/a n/a
       

Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles
Ballet Carmen de Lavallade Rocka My Soul...
Ballroom Judith Jameson      
Ethnologic Linda Denise Evans      
Jazz Dance            
Modern Dance            

Publications

Theaters

Stage
Alvin Ailey Dance Theater (Allen) Kennedy Center 1958 - Blues Suite
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Cook) Lincoln Theater 1960 - Revelations
1983 - Dance Magazine Wiltern Theater (Los Angeles) C# Street
            Cry
            For Bird
            Grace
            House Of Flowers
            La Creation du Monde
            Lark Ascending, the
            Mass
            Memoria
            Night Creature
            Witness

Films

Television

Publications
n/a So You Think You Can Dance $ 1998 - A Life In Dance (Dunning)
            $ 1993 - Alvin Ailey (Pinkney)
            $ 1995 - Revelations (Ailey)
             
             

NOTE: N/A

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