...This chapter examines the early dance company formed by Alvin Ailey. In outlining his plan for the formation of an American dance company, Ailey's requirements included a home base that would include a school and center of operations; company teachers of jazz, ballet, and modern dance...

...This chapter examines the 1969 version of Alvin Ailey's concert dance Revelations. The dance's performance was very different from its 1962 incarnation and the changes in it reflected the changes in Ailey's thoughts about the importance of dance in American culture...

...This chapter examines the concert dance tours of Alvin Ailey's dance company called the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the US during the 1960s and 1970s. During the 1960s, the company was very busy touring various parts of the US and the company found itself consistently setting attendance...

...This chapter discusses the interest of Alvin Ailey in the history of African American musical forms, especially modern jazz. He collaborated with various classically trained jazz musicians for his jazz ballet including Charles Mingus, Max Roach, and Keith Jarrett. But the bulk of his jazz ballets...

...This chapter examines the issues of gender and spectatorship in Alvin Ailey's concert dances. Though Ailey's dances generally suggest an egalitarian configuration of female and male physical presence, they seldom privilege male over female bodies in terms of either technical challenge or stage time...

... simultaneously different worldviews.” Jazz dance, on the other hand, has usually been seen as a form of entertainment. Pearl Primus, Talley Beatty, Alvin Ailey, Chuck Davis, Diane McIntyre, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar are African-American concert dance artists who are discussed within the chapter. African...

... and stasis, it explores the status of labor as manifested in the particular photo-choreographic context of an Alvin Ailey poster. Placing dance studies into conversation with critical race studies and visual studies, this chapter asks how skin, flesh, mutability, and labor coalesce to present or undermine...

...Through an ethnographic account of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation (AADF), this article examines the tensions between the production and the liberation of the queer black male dancing body. Drawing from fieldwork conducted at the AADF during the summers of 2005, 2006, and 2008, it exposes the politics...

...The Epilogue examines Dunham’s influence as an artist, activist, and intellectual. It discusses efforts within the dance world to preserve her legacy, namely, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 1987–88 performances of The Magic of Katherine Dunham, disputes over licensing her...

...This chapter examines the non-modern dance choreographed by Alvin Ailey. Though better known as a modern dance choreographer, Ailey created several dance pieces for ballet companies, and in doing so he broke through the conventional distinctions between American modern dance and ballet. Some of his...

...This chapter examines developments in the career of Alvin Ailey during the 1970s. Ailey's choreographic output slowed considerably after the Ellington festival and he made no new dances for his company or any other for two years. Despite this, Ailey' enterprise continued to expand and his Alvin...

...This chapter discusses the choreography style of Alvin Ailey. Most of Ailey's ballets are about transition and often involves passage and the journey to reconfiguration. He often choreographed in suite form, which allowed for imaginative variations around a theme of situations. Lighting was very...

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... community centers in low-income neighborhoods. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, partnerships Ballet Hispanico, partnerships Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development Fernandez, Chancellor Joseph, community schools Frick Museum, partnerships The Children's Aid Society's concept of community schools...

...In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the civil...

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... of developing concert dance among the major black dance companies who were second tier to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The author explores the vitality of professional NY dance and the experiences that dancing with RRDC provided, such as the Dancemobile in the 5 boroughs, the cultural integration...

...This chapter examines Revelations, the first major choreographic masterpiece of Alvin Ailey. When Ailey choreographed this dance in 1960 it was intended to be the second part of an evening-length survey of African American music that would show the growth and reach of black culture...

...This chapter examines the early dance choreographed by Alvin Ailey. It explains that one of the reasons Ailey created his dance company was to create a racially integrated repertory company that could perform both modern dance classics and new works and to give artistic voice to African American...

...This chapter examines Alvin Ailey's experience in the field of concert dance in the US during the 1960s and the 1970s. During this period, Ailey became increasingly known as a leading exponent of concert dance and continuously spoke for increased opportunities for African Americans in dance. He...