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| | GP - Dance in America: A Hymn for Alvin Ailey - Meet the Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Born in poor, rural Rogers, Texas in 1931, Ailey was the child of Lula Elizabeth Cliff, and the handsome Alvin Ailey, whom she married at 16. |
 | | Alvin Ailey, at 23 barely out of his own apprenticeship with Horton's company, became its artistic director, choreographing a ballet based on Tennessee Williams's works and works of other artists, many of them savaged by the critics. |
 | | He soaked up knowledge and inspiration from the culture that produced him, and produced leaves in the form of dances, branches that are the hundreds of dancers and choreographers who studied with him, performed with and for him, passed through his company and, ultimately, his school. |
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