Alvin Ailey Jr. was an American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT). He created AAADT and its affiliated Alvin Ailey American Dance Center as havens for nurturing Black artists and expressing the universality of the African-American experience through dance.
photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955
Alvin Ailey and Carmen de Lavallade (1954)
Revelations performed by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in 2011
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies in which motion or form or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who creates choreographies by practising the art of choreography, a process known as choreographing. It most commonly refers to dance choreography.
Choreography for the Spanish dance Cachucha, described using dance notation
One of the first documents with choreographic signs is the Catalan manuscript of Cervera from 1496