AlvinAiley Reviews & Ratings

Founded in 1958, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre is a dance company that is based in New York, New York by Alvin Ailey. Today, the company is composed of 30 dancers and managed by artistic director Judith Jamison. The company was first composed of a group of black modern dancers when it started with its first performance at New York's 92nd Street Young Men's Hebrew Association. Following this, the company went on station wagon tours until they became the resident dance troupe for the 51st Street YWCA's Clark Center for the Performing Arts in 1960. They later toured the Far East, Southeast Asia and Australia as part of JFKís President's Special International Program for Cultural Presentations. 

A school was founded in 1969 and that same year the company moved its home to the Brooklyn Academy of Music before moving to 229 East 59th Street in Manhattan a year later. The school and the company moved into its own building in 2004 at the Joan Weill Center for Dance and received $12 million grant in 2007 from the Carnegie Corporation.