Alvin ailey biography book
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Alvin Ailey
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AlvinAiley
A Life in Dance.
By Jennifer Dunning.
Illustrated. pp. Reading, Mass.:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. $
Why would anybody want to be a choreographer? Dance making isn't like writing, where, as Red Smith once observed, all one needs to do is sit down at a desk and open a vein. Choreographers don't get to sit much, unless a stroke or crippling arthritis takes them permanently off their feet. No, a choreographer gets to run around, in a body that is half again as old as the birth certificate registers, and tell younger dancers to try stuff that is inevitably going to take them to the orthopedist, then tell them over and over that they're doing it wrong. At the end of a typical work day (which, counting a performance, can mean after midnight), there are two choices. Go home and crash. Or don't go home.
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Jennifer Dunning's compassionate and painstakingly reported biography, ''Alvin Ailey: A Life in Dance,'' tells the story of a choreographer who didn't go home all too often and who didn't live to finish telling the tale. At first he only stayed out to pickle himself in alcohol. Then he added drugs, snorting cocaine as casually as if it were Dristan. At some point he discovered the tempor
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Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey
African American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and director Alvin Ailey was born in Rogers, Texas. He trained in New York under Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, and Hanya Holm while dancing and acting in Broadway and off-Broadway shows. In Ailey founded the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, the first multiracial modern-dance troupe. He performed his breakthrough piece Blues Suite with the company that same year. His most famous dance, Revelations (), a mournful and celebratory story of religious spirit, became the company's signature piece. With these and other pieces, Ailey demonstrated to a skeptical public that modern dance could be terrific entertainment, and his company became hugely popular. In Ailey retired from dancing in order to devote his time and energy to choreography and to directing his company. Ailey's work has been widely performed by a number of other modern dance companies as well, and he choreographed for such companies as the Joffrey Ballet and the American Ballet Theater. His choreography is direct and often topical, reflecting his observations of the body language of urban blacks as well as the contrasting rhythms of rural life. In addition to Revelations, other well-known works are Creatio