Alvin Ailey Dance Moves!: A New Way to Exercise
by Lise Friedman
from Harry N. Abrams
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is among the premier modern dance companies in the world. One of the hallmarks of an Ailey-trained dancer is a supremely versatile, strong, beautifully toned body-the result of deep immersion in an array of dance and movement techniques. Now there's a dynamic exercise book that brings those benefits home.
Alvin Ailey Dance Moves! draws from the many disciplines taught at The Ailey School-from classical ballet to West African and Indian dance to yoga. Created for people of all abilities, the program helps to improve posture and increase strength, stamina, flexibility, and muscle tone, relieve aches and pains, and support relaxation and well-being.
Featuring leading dancers from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, and students from The Ailey School in stunning color photographs paired with lucid, step-by-step instructions, the program is easy to learn and easy to stick with. Alvin Ailey Dance Moves! is for anyone who loves dance, and for everyone who is committed to personal health and wellness.
Alvin Ailey: A Life In Dance
by Jennifer Dunning
from Da Capo Press
The great African-American choreographer Alvin Ailey created breathtaking modern dances,which changed the boundaries of the art form, and founded a school and a dance company to maintain the tradition. In this sensitive but searing biography, Jennifer Dunning, a dance critic with the New York Times, reveals the terrible personal pain that Ailey hid from his public. The life of a dancer and choreographer makes enormous physical demands, and the kind of adulation Ailey received as a young man takes a toll on the spirit. Ailey, a manic depressive full of self-doubt, retreated to alcohol, drugs, and promiscuity for self-affirmation off the stage. He lived a life of awful self-destruction, and then died of AIDS-related causes at age 58. Dunning captures the greatness and the agony of Ailey's creative spirit.
Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey
by Alvin Ailey
from Citadel Press
Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture
by Thomas F. DeFrantz
from Oxford University Press, USA
In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil Rights struggle. In Dancing Revelations, Thomas DeFrantz chronicles the troupe's journey from a small modern dance company to one of the premier institutions of African American culture. He not only charts this rise to national and international renown, but also contextualizes this progress within the civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights struggles of the late 20th century.
DeFrantz examines the most celebrated Ailey dances, including Revelations, drawing on video recordings of Ailey's dances, published interviews, oral histories, and his own interviews with former Ailey company dancers. Through vivid descriptions and beautiful illustrations, DeFrantz reveals the relationship between Ailey's works and African American culture as a whole. He illuminates the dual achievement of Ailey as an artist and as an arts activist committed to developing an African American presence in dance. He also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship of Ailey's dances to civil rights activism, and the establishment and maintenance of a successful, large-scale Black Arts institution.
Throughout Dancing Revelations, DeFrantz illustrates how Ailey combined elements of African dance with motifs adapted from blues, jazz, and Broadway to choreograph his dances. By re-interpreting these tropes of black culture in his original and well-received dances, DeFrantz argues that Ailey played a significant role in defining the African American cultural canon in the twentieth century. As the first book to examine the cultural sources and cultural impact of Ailey's work, Dancing Revelations is an important contribution to modern dance history and criticism as well as African-American studies.
Alvin Ailey: Celebrating African-American Culture in Dance (African-American Biographies)
by Barbara C. Cruz
from Enslow Publishers
Debut: stepping into vintage Ailey.(Alvin Ailey's "Revelations")(Asha Thomas): An article from: Dance Magazine
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Title: Debut: stepping into vintage Ailey.(Alvin Ailey's "Revelations")(Asha Thomas)
Author: Karen Hildebrand
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 80 Issue: 3 Page: 92(1)
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Alvin Ailey (The Library of American Choreographers)
by Judy Gitenstein
from Rosen Central
Alvin Ailey: American Dance Theater: an SPA presentation.: An article from: Semana
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Title: Alvin Ailey: American Dance Theater: an SPA presentation.
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 12, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 12 Issue: 676 Page: S4(1)
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