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Alvin Ailey

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Alvin Ailey Jr. was an American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist. He founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) in 1958, and the Clark Center for the Performing Arts in 1959. He created AAADT and its affiliated Alvin Ailey American Dance Center as havens for nurturing Black artists and expressing the universality of the African-American experience through dance.

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I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
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My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
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Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
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