cries Choreographer-Dancer Alvin Ailey. “Look what you’ve made ... he gave up sports to join the Lester Horton Dance Studio. After 31 semesters of college, he came to Manhattan and appeared ...

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.

Drawing from his early experiences at Lester Horton’s studio and his upbringing in Los Angeles, Alvin Ailey cultivated a profound understanding of dance as a vehicle for cultural expression.

Since then, the company has performed ... Renowned dancer Alvin Ailey was born in the rural south in 1931. After becoming the director of the Lester Horton Dance Theater and performing in a ...

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 ...

Now, the dance company is commencing its four-year residency in Los Angeles, the place where Alvin Ailey learned to dance with Lester Horton in the ‘40s. It also marks a homecoming for Dolphin ...

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), ...

He studied modern dance under Katherine Dunham and Lester Horton in L.A. before starting his own company in New York City. What's next: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s assistant rehearsal ...

The Alvin Ailey company’s arrival to Los Angeles ... In 1953, Ailey started studying dance with the famed Lester Horton, whose L.A.-based dance company was one of the first permanent and ...