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Alvin Ailey: A Life in Dance Book

The great African-American choreographer Alvin Ailey created breathtaking modern dances,which changed the boundaries of the art form, and founded a school and a dance company to maintain the tradition. In this sensitive but searing biography, Jennifer Dunning, a dance critic with the New York Times, reveals the terrible personal pain that Ailey hid from his public. The life of a dancer and choreographer makes enormous physical demands, and the kind of adulation Ailey received as a young man takes a toll on the spirit. Ailey, a manic depressive full of self-doubt, retreated to alcohol, drugs, and promiscuity for self-affirmation off the stage. He lived a life of awful self-destruction, and then died of AIDS-related causes at age 58. Dunning captures the greatness and the agony of Ailey's creative spirit.Read More

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  • Product Description

    In the first authoritative biography of the dancer and choreographer, the dance critic for The New York Times traces Ailey's climb from poverty in Texas to international fame and his contributions to black culture. National ad/promo.

  • 0201626071
  • 9780201626070
  • Jennifer Dunning
  • 4 November 1996
  • Da Capo Press Inc
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 480
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