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Celebrating Alvin Ailey
Eric N. Hong, photographer; hand coloring by Midori Fujioka. Alvin Ailey, founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (009.00.00)
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Early Years
Jack Mitchell, photographer. Lester Horton Dance Theater members (left to right): James Truitte, Joyce Trisler, Alvin Ailey, and Lelia Goldoni in Ailey’s first choreographic work, According to St. Francis, 1954. Lester Horton Dance Theater Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Photograph © Jack Mitchell (001.00.00)
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Ailey's Early Choreography
Photographer unknown. Members of the Lester Horton Dance Theater (left to right): Alvin Ailey, Misaye Kawasumi, Roland Goldwater, and Lelia Goldoni in an early Ailey work, La Creation du Monde, 1954. Lester Horton Dance Theater Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00)
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Lester Horton as Mentor
Alvin Ailey. Handwritten teaching notebook with notes on exercises based on the dance technique of Lester Horton, n.d. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (006.00.00, 006.00.01)
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Early Inspiration
Photographer unknown. Ailey in a studio portrait, 1955. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00)
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Carmen de Lavallade
Erick Smith, photographer. Carmen de Lavallade and Alvin Ailey in an early production of Blues Suite, ca. 1960. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (013.00.00)
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Masazumi Chaya in Blues Suite
Costas, photographer. Masazumi Chaya in Blues Suite, n.d. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (029.00.00)
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Jennifer Muller’s Speeds
Jack Mitchell, photographer. Masazumi Chaya (bottom) and Ralph Glenmore in Jennifer Muller’s Speeds, 1974. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Photograph © Jack Mitchell (030.00.00)
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Revelations: Ailey’s Signature Work
Photographer unknown. Alvin Ailey, Ella Thompson Moore, and Myrna White in Revelations, ca. 1960. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (014.00.00)
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Photographer unknown. Alvin Ailey in Revelations, ca. 1960. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (019.00.00)
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Evolution of Revelations
Raimund Vogel and Hady Müller, photographers. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Revelations, n.d. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division. Library of Congress (020.00.00)
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Early Critical Acclaim for Revelations
Paul Kolnik, photographer. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Revelations, n.d. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Photograph © Paul Kolnik (021.00.00)
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Revelations as a Signature Work
Paul Kolnik, photographer. Briana Reed and Amos J. Machanic, Jr. in Revelations, 2000. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Photograph © Paul Kolnik (015.00.00)
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With Modern Dance Icon Ruth St. Denis
Photographer unknown. Alvin Ailey and Carmen de Lavallade with the celebrated modern dancer Ruth St. Denis at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, n.d. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (003.00.00, 004.00.00)
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Pas de Duke
Photographer unknown. Judith Jamison, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Alvin Ailey, ca. 1976. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (011.00.00)
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Ailey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Susan Cook, photographer. Alvin Ailey with Coretta Scott King, 1977. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (012.00.00)
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Ailey and John Travolta
Mario Ruiz, photographer. Alvin Ailey with John Travolta, 1978. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (010.00.00)
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Streams: Ailey’s First Plotless Dance
Fred Fehl, photographer. Clover Mathis, Hector Mercado, Christa Mueller, Kenneth Pearl, Estelle Spurlock, Clive Thompson, Dudley Williams, and Sara Yarborough in Ailey’s Streams, n.d. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Courtesy of Gabriel Pinski (024.00.00)
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Ailey’s Ballet-Inspired Choreography
Bill Hilton, photographer. Sara Yarborough and Clive Thompson in Ailey’s The Lark Ascending, 1972. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Courtesy of Bill Hilton (025.00.00)
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Night Creature
Bill Hilton, photographer. AAADT in Ailey’s Night Creature, n.d. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Courtesy of Bill Hilton (026.00.00)
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The Mooche
Johan Elbers, photographer. Judith Jamison in Ailey’s The Mooche, n.d. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (023.00.00)
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