Edges of Ailey /
Alvin Ailey is one of the most celebrated choreographers of the twentieth century. The creator of iconic works such as Blues Suite, Revelations and Cry, he is widely recognized for the dance company he founded in 1958 when he was just twenty-seven years old. Ailey imagined and cultivated a platform...
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New York :
Whitney Museum of American Art,
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Scott Rothkopf
- Such sweet thunder : on the edges of Ailey / Adrienne Edwards
- Show who you are : reflecting on Alvin Ailey / Masazumi Chaya, Adrienne Edwards, Judith Jamison, Sylvia Waters
- How to play drums / Malik Gaines
- Alive with Ailey / Jasmine Johnson
- Beyond culture and somewhere between starshine and clay : dancing with Alvin Ailey's commitment to Black study / Aimee Meredith Cox
- Elegant mutinies / Horace D. Ballard
- The rhythm of life : Alvin Ailey's queer gesture / Uri McMillan
- Take me to the water / J Wortham
- Virtuosity's blood memories / Ariel Osterweis
- At the edge of each other : reading with Alvin Ailey's archives / Joshua Lubin-Levy
- Radical accounting and the edges of archives : Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's historical data / Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit
- Dear Alvin / Thomas F. DeFrantz
- After Ailey : a conversation / Kyle Abraham, Claire Bishop, Aimee Meredith Cox, Brenda DixonGottschild, Adrienne Edwards, Jennifer Homans, Jamila Wignot, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar.