Alvin Ailey: The Choreographer | Portrait of Ailey

Learn about Alvin Ailey’s creative process as a choreographer and dancer and how he encouraged dancers to move beyond their limitations to connect to their internal rhythms and energies. The video highlights how Ailey used movement to express what he “wanted to say” about the world around him. The support materials help students reflect upon the video and their own personal connections to Ailey’s life and to express themselves through discussion and an improvisational movement activity. Students are also encouraged to use images from the video as an inspiration to create their own drawing, dance or written response.