Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and won international fame as both a dancer and choreographer. During the 1960s and 1970s, Alvin Ailey shaped modern dance into a popular art form. In 1969, he founded the American...

Choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey transformed the U.S. dance scene in the 1960s with his work Revelations, a powerful and moving dance which expresses Black experiences set to gospel music. By the 1980s this dance had been performed more often than...

Alvin Ailey, Jr. (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an African American modern dancer and choreographer who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He died of AIDS, at the age of 58....

ALVIN AILEY. By Jennifer Dunning. Addison-Wesley; 468 pages; $30 WHILE a dance biography might seem of interest chiefly to specialists, the life of Alvin Ailey is also the record of an American era. A child of the depression, he was born in...

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs classic works and new dances in three different mixed programs Tuesday through April 19 in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall (Metro: Foggy Bottom/GWU, with free shuttles). The schedule: Tuesday at 7, Wednesday through April 18 at 7:30,...

Russell Versus Rocco! Russell Simmons, rap mogul and yoga maniac, serves as honorary chair of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s opening night gala, joining people with a lot more money than you—the Weills, the Allisons and the Chenaults—to discuss strategies for world domination,...

Single women of the city mysteriously become afflicted with the children’s charity bug as “New York’s hedge fund community” (KA-CHING!) hosts an Evening of Cocktails & Dance to benefit the Children’s Storefront. The latter is a very deserving tuition-free school in Harlem, but let’s call...