Edges of Ailey / edited by Adrienne Edwards.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, [2024]
  • New Haven, CT : Yale Univeristy Press
  • ©2024
Description
387 pages, 1 unnumbered page (folded) : illustrations (some color), portraits, charts, facsimiles ; 31 cm

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Summary note
  • "Alvin Ailey is one of the most celebrated choreographers of the twentieth century. The creator of iconic works such as Blues Suite, Revelations, and Cry, he is widely recognized for the dance company he founded in 1958 when he was just twenty-seven years old. Ailey imagined and cultivated a platform for modern dance through his innovative repertoire, interdisciplinary sensibility, and support of dancers and choreographers. This expansive volume situates Ailey within a broader social, creative, and cultural context, looking at the artists who influenced and collaborated with him, the spaces and scenes he frequented, the dynamic themes within his dances, and how his vision and work changed contemporary dance. Essays by artists, scholars, and critics cover topics ranging from the Black church, the South, and the Great Migration to nightclubs, musical influences, and queerness. With more than four hundred images including photographs of works Ailey choreographed, archival materials such as notebooks, sketches, letters, and never-before-published behind-the-scenes photos, and conversations about the legacy of the company with Sylvia Waters, Judith Jamison, and Masazumi Chaya as well as several contemporary dancers and scholars, this study offers an unprecedented full picture of one of the twentieth century's leading artists and the way his work continues to inspire today's generation of dancers"-- Provided by publisher.
  • "Widely recognized for the dance company he founded in 1958, Alvin Ailey cultivated an innovative platform for modern dance. This expansive volume situates Ailey within a broader cultural and social context, examines the dynamic themes within his dances, and looks at how his vision and worked changed contemporary dance forever"-- Provided by publisher.
Notes
  • "Whitney Museum of American Art, New York September 25, 2024-February 9, 2025"--Colophon.
  • Folded page inserted between pages 96 and 97 includes illustrated chronology and other charts.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Foreword / Scott Rothkopf
  • Such sweet thunder : on the edges of Ailey / Adrienne Edwards
  • Show who you are : reflecting on Alvin Ailey / Masazumi Chaya, Adrienne Edwards, Judith Jamison, Sylvia Waters
  • How to play drums / Malik Gaines
  • Alive with Ailey / Jasmine Johnson
  • Beyond culture and somewhere between starshine and clay : dancing with Alvin Ailey's commitment to Black study / Aimee Meredith Cox
  • Elegant mutinies / Horace D. Ballard
  • The rhythm of life : Alvin Ailey's queer gesture / Uri McMillan
  • Take me to the water / J Wortham
  • Virtuosity's blood memories / Ariel Osterweis
  • At the edge of each other : reading with Alvin Ailey's archives / Joshua Lubin-Levy
  • Radical accounting and the edges of archives : Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's historical data / Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit
  • Dear Alvin / Thomas F. DeFrantz
  • After Ailey : a conversation / Kyle Abraham, Claire Bishop, Aimee Meredith Cox, Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, Adrienne Edwards, Jennifer Homans, Jamila Wignot, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar.
ISBN
  • 9780300278842 ((hardcover))
  • 0300278845 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2024038942
OCLC
1428036528
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