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Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey was a dancer, choreographer, and teacher whose vision and leadership lead him to create one of the major art institutes of our time. The famous Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. A choreographer is a person who creates dance compositions and plans and arranges dance movements and patterns for dances. Movement is a language as rich and expressive as written or spoken language. We understand and use movement language so naturally, we are often unaware of the many ways we use it to communicate. We use movement in expressing emotions, giving directions, teaching, telling a story, and many more.
He was born January 5, 1931, in the central Texas town of Rogers, in Bell County. He died in New York December 1, 1989, of blood dyscrasia. Alvin was the only child of his mother, Lula. His father abandoned them when he was six months old. Alvin and his mother moved to Navasota Texas, eventually settling in Los Angeles at the age of twelve. In order for them to provide for......


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