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Influences of Alvin Ailey
- Trainning
- Horton
- Biggest influence on Ailey- taught every day
- Forced on using the body in the
most effective way possible
- Used the strength of the
back and flexability
- Use of body and spaitial awareness
- Forming Clear and liner shapes- Lateral
Streches, angled arms
- Graham
- Use of Contraction and realise
- Heavily used in Ailey, Revelations, Cry
- Giving into gravity
- Cry, Majority of section on is on the floor
- End of of mean olde frisco in blues suite
- A very expressive style- aliey used to
connceted with the auidence more
- Ballet
- The foot work of ballet is heavily used in Ailey
- Pas de Duex- Baryshnikov's talent,
Chaines, Abesque etc.
- River 1970 use of chaines
with contractions
- Jazz
- Used the isolation and occasional the synocpation of jazz
- Blues Suite 1958, Layout,
claps use of jazz fourth
- For Bird- WIth love, Aural and Physical Setting
influenced (broadway as well), Sharp kicks, as
well as rib isolations
- Childhood
- Abodment as a child
- love for his mother -cry Subject matter
- Texas depression
- Blue suites- Subject matter
- Faith
- Imagery of faith-
Revealtions fix me jesus
- Aural setting - Gosphel
- Physical setting- Church clothes-
Revealtions, mimual like churches
- Insipred by Stella Alder
- Blood memories
- Experience
- mental break down in the 1980's
inspired For bird with love
- Taking over Lester's company- gave him what it
was like it run a company, but also gave him the
coruage to move to NY , which allowed him to study
Graham which is an important style.
- 1940's started going to cinema, Fred astaire- jazz infulence and 45
he saw his first ballet and Dunham, this black compnay insipired
him to dance (multiracial) and also gave him his Afro style.
- He joined in many musical when he was in NY which gave him his
broadway style, Choregraphic devices - climax, as well as the
style was used in some of the pieces, revelations- rocka my soul
- Also gave him his use of
dancers- having indinivual
characters for each
dancers
- 1963 directed his last play, this
helps with his narrtive structures