Sentence examples for Ailey from high-quality English sources.

• But Ailey made it when he was twenty-nine.

• In 1958 Ailey formed his own dance company.

• “He’s not just an Ailey bunhead,” she said.

• (Most Ailey II students are people of color.)

• This was an echt-Ailey pain-and-transcendence piece.

• The Ailey organization has performed eleven of his dances.

• Jamison has said that Battle reminds her of Ailey, and I can see why.

• Ailey was repeatedly arrested, on charges ranging from assault to shoplifting.

Use Ailey in a sentence.

• Roberts said he feels he has a guiding spiritual force in all of this: Alvin Ailey.

• Ailey subsequently continued to choreograph works for his own and other modern-dance companies.

• Following Horton’s death in 1953, Ailey was director of the company until it disbanded in 1954.

• “Only half the history had been told,” Ailey reflects, as she considers her duty to probe the past.

• Powell was nine years old when Alvin Ailey visited his Manhattan public school, to hold auditions for his children’s-dance program.

• The Alvin Ailey organization continues its monthslong effort to bring dance into our homes — this time with its first-ever “Ailey Spirit Gala” global broadcast.

• Ailey personally asked his iconic dancer Judith Jamison to run the company after his death, and it is now guided by the steady hand of Jamison’s chosen successor, Robert Battle.

• Roberts is the choreographer-in-residence at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, where he has been a dancer since 2002; he retires from Ailey with a show on Dec. 9.

Ailey sentence examples

• Another pioneer was Alvin Ailey, whose American Dance Theater performed a stylistically wide variety of works—from modern dance classics by Ted Shawn to ballet-influenced works by Ailey himself.

• City Ballet’s spring season was to have included world premieres by Pam Tanowitz, who was commissioned to create her second work for the company; and Jamar Roberts, the resident choreographer for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

• His repertoire for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) and Ailey II (AAADT’s junior company) included The Corner (2010), Another Night (2012), and the last two movements of his trilogy Untitled America (2016).

• The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre wraps up its first season under its new artistic director, Robert Battle, who has paired Ailey classics like “Revelations,” first performed in 1960, with new works, including a world première of the hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris’s “Home,” about living with H.I.V.