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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 and Lester Hortonand 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 Theaterfounded in 1958 and teaching dance to inner city kids.

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

 

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

Rogers, Texas

1/5/1931 - 12/1/1989

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Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles

Ballet

Carmen de Lavallade

Rocka My Soul...

Ballroom

Judith Jameson

      

Ethnologic

Linda Denise Evans

      

Jazz

            

Modern

            
 

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

C# Street
           

Cry
           

For Bird
           

Grace
           

House Of Flowers
           

La Creation du Monde
           

Lark Ascending, the
           

Mass
           

Memoria
           

Night Creature
           

Witness
 

Films

Television

Publications
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$ 1998 - A Life In Dance (Dunning)
           

$ 1993 - Alvin Ailey (Pinkney)

           

$ 1995 - Revelations (Ailey)

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April 25, 2006

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