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...black contribution to modern dance has been enormous. Performers include Katherine Dunham, the Alvin Ailey company, and many black stars like Clive Thompson, Mary Hinkson, Matt Turney and Carmen de Lavallade. But in classical ballet, there is still sharp prejudice...
DUBROVNIK (July 10-Aug. 25). The historic Adriatic seaport offers an array of opera, dance and music that includes the Moscow Philharmonic, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, London's Amadeus Quartet and Zubin Mehta conducting the Belgrade Philharmonic...
...ALVIN AILEY, 37, is a Turned-On with a streak of the revivalist...
...talking about their cultural heritage, and when he celebrates it in dance, it is something to be proud of. In Revelations, a searingly personal statement based on Negro spirituals, his dancers evoke all the yearning, despair, anger and, finally, bright hope of a people who will overcome. Ailey already has; such powerful, nonethnic dances as his Feast of Ashes and Ariadne mark him as one of the most richly gifted talents in dance. And he has the receipts to prove it. Two years ago his twelve-member troupe grossed $29,000; this year it will...
Lost Money. Now 34, Ailey is the son of a farm worker his mother hasn't seen for more than 30 years. An all-round athlete in high school, he gave up sports to join the Lester Horton Dance Studio. After 31 semesters of college, he came to Manhattan and appeared in several Broadway productions, finally saved enough to form his own small troupe. By 1961 the company had worked up to four concerts a year, "all the time losing money like mad." The State Department spotted it and in 1962 sent it on a successful tour...