“I always want to have more dancers in my company.”
— Alvin Ailey
(January 5, 1931-1989)
Sign: Capricorn
Gay black choreographer, dancer, activist, and founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Ailey helped popularize modern dance among black American audiences. His signature choreographic work is Revelations (1960): a century-spanning dance-narrative that synthesizes the music of Black Americans from slavery to present day.
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