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	Alvin Ailey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ailey was born to his 17-year-old mother, Lula Cooper, in Rogers, Texas.
		Alvin became the director and resident choreographer for the Lester Horton Dance Theater.
		Alvin Ailey was gay and was a longtime lover of David McReynolds in the 1950s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alvin_Ailey (376 words)

	Alvin Ailey - MSN Encarta
		Alvin Ailey (1931-1989), American dancer and choreographer, founding director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, an internationally renowned modern-dance repertory company.
		Born in Rogers, Texas, Ailey enrolled at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and became involved with the Lester Horton Dance Theater in 1949.
		Ailey's company performed the works of many noted choreographers, including Anna Sokolow, Katherine Dunham, José Limón, and Pearl Primus, as well as works of Ailey's own creation, often inspired by the African American heritage.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572574/Alvin_Ailey.html (365 words)

	Great Performances: Free To Dance - Biographies - Alvin Ailey
		In 1974 the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, a professional performance ensemble, was formed under the direction of Sylvia Waters as a bridge between study and membership in professional dance companies.
		Ailey stopped dancing in 1965 and slowed his choreographic assignments in the 1970s to attend to the administrative and fund-raising operations associated with his ever expanding company.
		Ailey's legacy to the dance world was to foster a freedom of choice--from ballet, modern, and social dance performance -- to best express humanity in movement terms suited to the theatrical moment.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/freetodance/biographies/ailey.html (1310 words)

	The My Hero Project - Alvin Ailey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alvin Ailey was born in 1931 in Rogers, Texas.
		Alvin Ailey is my hero because he was never afraid to change his mind and was never afraid to take a chance at something new.
		Alvin Ailey was a choreographer and founder of the American Dance Theater.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=a_ailey_montvale (1039 words)

	Alvin Ailey biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.
		Ailey was able to take his company on tour frequently, a mixed blessing; it made any kind of normal relationship or family life next to impossible.
	www.topblacks.com /arts/alvin-ailey.htm (1386 words)

	Alvin Ailey
		The Alvin Ailey Dance Company was the first American dance company to tour the U.S.S.R. in 50 years, (American tour of the U.S.S.R. was Isadora Duncan in the 1920's).
		Alvin Ailey and his company have received many awards such as the Dance Magazine Award in 1975, the Capezio Award in 1979, the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award in 1987 and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1988.
		Alvin Ailey died of terminal blood dyscrasia, a disease that affects the bone marrow and red blood cells, on the 1
	www.the-ballet.com /ailey.php (630 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Alvin Ailey: A Life in Dance
		Decades later, Alvin's mother could still see and smell the toilets and eating areas for the colored that were hidden at the back of bus-stop cafes along routes from one Texas town to another, as much out of view of white eyes as possible.
		Norman objected to their marriage on the grounds that Alvin and his impoverished family had no "get-up-and-go." Doomed from the start, their marriage began, at her father's insistence, with a wedding night in the bride's home in a room with a lamp that was to remain lighted all night.
		Alvin picked with his mother, although his work consisted mostly of an occasional, rather lordly separating of the unopened bolls that had found their way into the sacks of cotton.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/alvinailey.htm (4285 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Alvin Ailey, fl dancer, choreographer, and founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, was born in Rogers, Bell County, Texas, on January 5, 1931.
		Ailey was profoundly influenced by the work of Lester Horton, a choreographer and teacher in Los Angeles.
		Ailey received the Kennedy Center Honors from President Ronald Reagan in 1988 and the New York City Handel Medallion for achievement in the arts.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/AA/fai3.html (970 words)

	Alvin Ailey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at 40 has fed several generations of dancers into the mainstream of dance.
		Alvin Ailey was consistently gracious in acknowledging his teachers, collaborators, and artistic forebears, for whom the company has staged new dances, gala performances, and entire seasons over the years.
		She favors balletic stretch, speed, and over-the-top projection, as in a section where seven men wait staunchly on a diagonal for one woman after another to rush into their arms and pitch into a six o'clock penché arabesque.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/dance/98/04/23/ALVIN_AILEY.html (639 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Alvin Ailey's masterpiece "Revelations" continues to inspire dancers and ...
		At Ailey the norm is for dancers to give everything they've got, to be generous not only with their big athleticism and technique, but also with their humanity and their vulnerability.
		Ailey himself is said to have been frustrated by the fact that he never produced another dance of its magnitude.
		The ballet itself was inspired by what Alvin Ailey called his "blood memories" of growing up in Texas and of the Sunday services in tiny churches with their outdoor baptisms.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002857134_ailey12.html (1313 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Ailey, Alvin
		Ailey was born on January 5, 1931 in direst poverty in the Brazos Valley of Texas.
		When Ailey was a child, he moved with his mother to Los Angeles, where she secured work in an aircraft factory.
		While Ailey was pleased that the U.S. State Department sponsored his company's first overseas tour in 1962, he suspected that the sponsors' motives were propagandistic rather than altruistic as they wanted to demonstrate that "a modern Negro dance group" could flourish in the United States.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/ailey_a.html (831 words)

	Alvin Ailey
		Alvin was the only child of his 17-year-old mother, Lula.
		Ailey began studying with Horton in 1949, leaving behind his romance language studies at UCLA.
		Ailey's choreography for Blues Suite (1958), his first financial and critical success, marked the beginning of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company.
	texas-on-line.com /graphic/alvinailey.htm (459 words)

	Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Foundation page two
		They deserved the raises (the Ailey crew is the hardest working group I have ever encountered) and she wanted me to get the Board to approve the raises despite the wage freeze imposed by the Board as a response to the current fiscal crisis.
		Alvin knew what he was doing when he selected Judith to replace him; she had the strength of character and the determination to build upon what he had established.
		Ailey Camp was well established in Kansas City by the time I came to Ailey and we were able to introduce camps in Baltimore and New York.
	www.artsmanager.org /lessons/alvin_ailey2.cfm (10138 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Alvin Ailey
		Perhaps the best known American choreographer in many parts of the world, Alvin Ailey helped to bridge the gap between modern dance and the general public in the United States and abroad.
		Ailey moved to Los Angeles in 1942 to study with Lester Horton Dance Theatre in 1953, and after Horton's death stayed with the company as choreographer creating his earliest works in 1954: La Creation du monde, According to St. Francis, Mourning Morning and Work Dances.
		In 1958 Ailey formed his own company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, of which he served as artistic director from its founding to 1980.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3507&source_type=A (358 words)

	[ Iu + Bibliowicz Architects, LLP ]
		The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Joan Weill Center for the Dance is the largest facility dedicated exclusively to dance in the United States.
		The distinct needs of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT), Ailey II and The Ailey School are expressed in the articulation of the building façade.
		These forms were drawn from Ailey’s signature dance "Revelations," referencing the "Wade in the Water" section that uses large, billowy, white and blue fabric stretched across the stage to symbolize a river.
	www.ibarchitects.com /portfolio/arts/alvin_ailey.html (394 words)

	Alvin Ailey dancers reveal the perfection of simplicity - The Boston Globe
		That observation sprang to mind after Tuesday's opening-night performance at the Wang Theatre of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, sponsored by the Bank of America Celebrity Series.
		Ailey's performers have historically had the technical chops and emotional tenacity to set a theater on fire, and this group -- particularly the men -- was no exception.
		Much of the vocabulary is familiar from other Ailey concerts -- shoulder rolls and shimmies, stag leaps and deep hinges to the floor -- with a dollop of hip-hop mixed in.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/04/27/alvin_ailey_dancers_reveal_the_perfection_of_simplicity (584 words)

	BookRags: Alvin Ailey Biography
		Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and won international fame as both a dancer and choreographer.
		Ailey also produced his own celebrated dance pieces, dealing with his memories of church services and forbidden dance halls in the all-fl neighborhood of the Texas town where he spent his early years.
		Ailey established the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, composed of a troupe of eight fl dancers, in 1959.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/alvin-ailey (1813 words)

	NPR : Alvin Ailey's Dance Troupe at 45
		The Alvin Ailey troupe is considered one of the country's premier modern dance companies, and it has a unique place in American culture.
		Ailey founded the troupe in 1958, envisioning dance as a way to celebrate and honor fl culture.
		The movements of Ailey dancers are characterized as smooth, controlled and deliberate, and their productions are often flavored with dances from the African Diaspora.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1912037 (455 words)

	Amazon.ca: Alvin Ailey Dance Moves!: A New Way to Exercise: Books: Lise Friedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is among the premier modern dance companies in the world.
		Featuring leading dancers from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, and students from The Ailey School in stunning color photographs paired with lucid, step-by-step instructions, the program is easy to learn and easy to stick with.
		According to the brief history and description of the Alvin Ailey style, the company borrows from a diverse range of techniques, everything from ballet, jazz, modern (specifically the work of Lester Horton, Katherine Dunham and Martha Graham), to African, Caribbean, Indian and West African traditional dance.
	www.amazon.ca /Alvin-Ailey-Dance-Moves-Exercise/dp/158479285X (841 words)

	African American Registry: Alvin Ailey was a modern dance original
		Alvin Ailey* was born on this date in 1931.
		Originally from Rogers, Texas, Ailey enrolled UCLA and became involved with the Lester Horton Dance Theater in 1949.
		Ailey choreographed for several companies in addition to his own, including the American Ballet Theatre, Paris Opera Ballet, and Joffrey Ballet.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/12/Alvin_Ailey_was_a_modern_dance_original (169 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ailey, Alvin, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Rogers, Tex. Ailey studied in Los Angeles with Lester Horton, whose strong, dramatic style and views about multiracial casting influenced his choreography and artistic direction.
		Alvin Ailey returns to the legendary Apollo Theater with glitz and glam
		Judith Jamison: extending the Alvin Ailey dance legacy; late choreographer's protegee continues his work with rejuvenated company.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/00217.html (269 words)

	Amazon.ca: Alvin Ailey: Books: Andrea Davis Pinkney,Brian Pinkney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The author deftly combines elements of fiction and biography, intertwining Ailey's alleged thoughts and conversations with facts about his childhood, his introduction to the world of dance in Los Angeles during the mid-1940s and his founding of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City in 1958.
		Kindergarten-Grade 3-An accessible picture-book biography that recounts Ailey's boyhood in Texas and his roots in the fl church, moves with him and his mother to Los Angeles where he begins to dance, and then proceeds on to New York where he hones his talents and forms his own troupe.
		Alvin's moving, leaping body is caught perfectly in the scratchboard illustrations toned with watercolors and acrylic.
	www.amazon.ca /Alvin-Ailey-Andrea-Davis-Pinkney/dp/0786810777 (532 words)

	A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Alvin Ailey \| PBS
		Following Horton's death in 1953, Ailey was director of the company until it disbanded in 1954.
		The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, composed primarily of fls, toured extensively both in the United States and abroad.
		The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, through its highly successful tours on every continent, made him the best-known American choreographer abroad from the 1960s through the '80s.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/alvin_ailey.html (231 words)

	Alvin Ailey season - June 2002
		Last seen in London ten years ago, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has earned a reputation as the most acclaimed ambassador of American culture, promoting the uniqueness of fl cultural expression and the preservation and enrichment of the American modern dance heritage.
		Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s performances at Sadler’s Wells are sponsored by Bloomberg.
		Sadler's Wells' Education Project around Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre is generously sponsored by Mellon Financial Corporation.
	www.sadlerswells.com /whats_on/spring2002/ailey.asp (452 words)

	Lessons from the Field: Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Foundation
		In 1991 it appeared that the company founded by Alvin Ailey in 1954 was in jeopardy.
		In 1990, I was asked to become Executive Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Foundation, an incredibly exciting prospect for me. I had worked with Alvin in Kansas City and was a huge fan of his work.
		While she had a firm idea of how she wanted the company to perform artistically, she had been buffeted by the tremendous financial problems and many of her artistic initiatives could not be implemented given the financial constraints.
	www.artsmanager.org /lessons/alvin_ailey.cfm (474 words)

	Amazon.com: Alvin Ailey: A Life in Dance: Books: Jennifer Dunning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The great African-American choreographer Alvin Ailey created breathtaking modern dances,which changed the boundaries of the art form, and founded a school and a dance company to maintain the tradition.
		Born in Rogers, Tex., Ailey (1931-1989) overcame poverty, racism, even an unusual body type (as a chubby youngster, he was nicknamed "Big Head") to become a world-renowned choreographer whose racially integrated dance company extolled and preserved fl culture.
		For the first time, the life and work of Alvin Ailey, one of the most beloved figures in modern dance, is entertainingly told, taking into account the often adverse personal and social circumstances he had to contend with for the 58 years of his life.
	www.amazon.com /Alvin-Ailey-Dance-Jennifer-Dunning/dp/0306808250 (1272 words)

	Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ailey IIreturns to Belleayre for a three-peat after wowing the sold out audiences in 2004 and 2005 at the Music Festival with inventive, awe-inspiring performances of Quintet, Hunt and Revelations garnering some of the longest and loudest standing ovations of the summer.
		Ailey II is an exceptional company that merges the spirit and energy of the country’s best young dance talent with the passion and creative vision of today’s most outstanding emerging choreographers.
		Ailey II began in 1974 as the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, when Alvin Ailey initiated a workshop composed of the most promising students from The Ailey School.
	www.icatskills.us /concerts/concert.php?id=31 (289 words)

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