Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater on Tour
AAADT has often been used by the U.S. State Department as a cultural ambassador, beginning with a 1962 tour of the Far East, South East Asia, and Australia as part of John F. Kennedy’s “President’s Special International Program for Cultural Presentations.” Since its founding, Ailey’s company has been seen by over twenty-one million people in forty-eight states and seventy-one countries on six continents.
AAADT has often been used by the U.S. State Department as a cultural ambassador, beginning with a 1962 tour of the Far East, South East Asia, and Australia as part of John F. Kennedy’s “President’s Special International Program for Cultural Presentations.” Since its founding, Ailey’s company has been seen by over twenty-one million people in forty-eight states and seventy-one countries on six continents.