Alvin Ailey ELA project

Alvin Ailey

I have been learning about Alvin Ailey for the past 3 weeks and he is very interesting. He grew up in a very poor family during The Great Depression. His father abandoned him and his mother when his was only 6 months old which is very sad because that means he practically never got to meet his dad/or will never remember him. Lester Horton was a gigantic part of Alvin's dancing life because when he died Alvin Ailey took over and became the director which is a part to take over from being a student to being a director. In the beginning of his dancing he used to dance at a night club in San Fransisco. When he started his own personal dance company it was made of only 8 african-americans.I hope you this made you want to read more about him!!

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