Alvin Ailey’s groundbreaking dance company is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a season at New York City Center. Take a step back through their sensational past productions

Dancer, Choreographer. Born in Rogers, Texas, he was the founder of the renowned dance company the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Starting in 1949, he studied with influential choreographer Lester Horton in Los Angeles, California. When Horton died in 1953, Alvin Ailey took over the Lester Horton Dance Theater and...

Alvin Ailey Dance Company.

In “Edges of Ailey,” a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the choreographer takes center stage. It’s another revelation.

Photographers Deborah Ory and Ken Browar focus on collaborating with dancers in a very specific way to form their creative vision.

Alvin Ailey American Ballet Theater. 📷 Paul Kolnik.

I love the strength in this, and then his wrist and hand are so effortlessly graceful and the pose just melts through his reach.

Chisholm Larsson Gallery has over 60,000 Original Vintage Posters, spanning all genres.

She became an international star as a member of the company and later directed it, guiding it out of debt and boosting its popularity.