Alvin Ailey was a choreographer who seamlessly melded dance forms, a dancer of extraordinary strength and beauty, and a man a queer man with an expansive, restless mind.
He formed his company in 1958 and died of AIDS in 1989. He was only 58. What Ailey accomplished in his short life was remarkable: Building an internationally known dance company, an esteemed school and a body of work that explored the Black experience.
The Ailey organization is perhaps the only institution that has come close to or surpassed the success of modern dance's longtime artistic rival: ballet. But for Ailey, it came at a price.
Edges of Ailey, opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on Sept. 25, is a one-of-a-kind exhibition that looks at Ailey in all his dimensions, personal and artistic, as well as the culture that he shaped.
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