alvin ailey • dancer/choreographer

Photo by Eric H. Hong

1931-1989
Alvin Ailey was an African-American dancer, director, choreographer and activist. He founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater its affiliated Ailey School as havens for nurturing Black artists and expressing the universality of the African-American experience through dance. Ailey's choreographic masterpiece Revelations is recognized as one of the most popular and most performed works in the world.

Click here to see Revelations.