CBS News New York's Chris Wragge speaks with Samantha Figgins, AILEY dancer and co-choreographer of "The Holy Blues" ...

He caught the arts bug early, discovered dance as an adolescent and danced with the company of Lester Horton — a seminal ... he founded his own company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ...

The arc of dance: Alvin ... him to Lester Horton, a significant regional choreographer who trained Ailey in his technique and, by example, demonstrated the mechanics of running a dance company.

In 1960, the twenty-nine-year-old Alvin Ailey premièred ... she took him to the Lester Horton Dance Theatre, in Hollywood, where she studied. For Horton, the company was a kind of family.

Alvin Ailey surrounded by the Company ... Black people have often followed other paths through art. Ailey understood modern dance. Mentored by dancer-choreographer Lester Horton in Los Angeles, he was ...

I used to teach 12 dance ... Lester Horton Technique in the east. Horton is the style of modern dance that I still teach at the Ailey School, and it is the foundation for dancers at the Alvin ...

He sought to tell stories through dance and to match choreography to the music’s mood and rhythms. Lester ... Alvin Ailey’s, which combines elements of modern dance, ballet and jazz to explore themes ...

The dance is an ode and tribute to Joyce Trisler, a dancer with Ailey in the Lester Horton Dance Theatre and ... Favors says, “Alvin was completely brilliant in creating the company in that (model), ...