{"id":24710,"date":"2021-08-10T22:20:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T02:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=24710"},"modified":"2021-08-10T22:20:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T02:20:18","slug":"american-masters-explores-the-life-and-impact-of-visionary-choreographer-and-dancer-alvin-ailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/10\/american-masters-explores-the-life-and-impact-of-visionary-choreographer-and-dancer-alvin-ailey\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;American Masters&#8221; Explores the Life and Impact of Visionary Choreographer and Dancer Alvin Ailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24711\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/american-masters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/american-masters.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/american-masters-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/american-masters-360x180.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>American Masters: Ailey<\/strong> <\/em>is a portrait of the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey (1931-1989), a trailblazing pioneer who founded his influential studio Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958 at age 27. The documentary traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with inimitable grace and power. Told through the choreographer&#8217;s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those close to him, director Jamila Wignot weaves together a resonant biography that connects Ailey&#8217;s past to our present with an intimate glimpse into the Ailey studios today, following innovative hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris as he conceives a new dance, &#8220;Lazarus,&#8221; inspired by Ailey&#8217;s life. Opening the series&#8217; 36th season, <em>American Masters: Ailey<\/em> premieres nationwide Tuesday, January 11, 2022, @9PM on PBS (check local listings), <a href=\"http:\/\/pbs.org\/ailey\">pbs.org\/ailey<\/a>, and the PBS Video app.<\/p>\n<p>Using previously unheard audio interviews recorded in the last year of Ailey&#8217;s life, the documentary presents the dancer&#8217;s remarkable journey in his own words, from his childhood in Jim Crow Texas to the inspiration for his 1960 masterpiece &#8220;Revelations.&#8221; Raised by a single mother, Ailey recounts the hardships of his childhood along with memories of blues and gospel music, juke joints, church, young love, and the awakening of his gay identity. Throughout his life, he endured racism, homophobia, addiction, mental illness, and the burden of being an iconic African American artist, but he found salvation through dance. In 1989, he tragically succumbed to an AIDS-related illness.<\/p><div id=\"morty-278843356\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>More than 30 years later, Ailey&#8217;s dream lives on. Where other modern dance companies were built to showcase their founders, Ailey envisioned his own as bigger than himself. By interweaving Ailey&#8217;s rich journey with Harris&#8217; present-day rehearsal process for &#8220;Lazarus,&#8221; <em>American Masters: Ailey<\/em> shows the enduring power of Ailey&#8217;s vision. In Harris&#8217; creative process, Ailey comes alive for a whole new generation: his faith in the transformative power of dance, his grand embrace, and his expression of complete freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Director Jamila Wignot said, &#8220;Ailey&#8217;s dances &#8211; celebrations of African American beauty and history &#8211; did more than move bodies; they opened minds. His dances were revolutionary social statements that staked a claim as powerful in his own time as in ours: Black life is central to the American story and deserves a central place in American art and on the world stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now in its 35th season on PBS, <em>American Masters<\/em> was recently nominated for two Primetime Emmy(R) Awards and received two News &amp; Doc Emmy nominations. The series illuminates the lives and creative journeys of our nation&#8217;s most enduring artistic giants &#8211; those who have left an indelible impression on our cultural landscape &#8211; through compelling, unvarnished stories. Setting the standard for documentary film profiles, the series has earned widespread critical acclaim and 28 Emmy Awards &#8211; including 10 for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series and five for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special &#8211; 14 Peabodys, three Grammys, two Producers Guild Awards, an Oscar, and many other honors. To further explore the lives and works of more than 250 masters past and present, the <em>American Masters<\/em> website offers full episodes, film outtakes, filmmaker interviews, the <em>American Masters<\/em> Podcast, educational resources, digital original series, and more. The series is a production of The WNET Group.<\/p>\n<p><em>American Masters<\/em> is available for streaming concurrently with broadcast on all station-branded PBS platforms, including <a href=\"http:\/\/PBS.org\">PBS.org<\/a> and the PBS Video App, available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast, and VIZIO. PBS station members can view many series, documentaries, and specials via PBS Passport. 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