Alvin Ailey Jr., 58, modern dance giant

Chicago Sun-Times | December 3, 1989 | Copyright

Alvin Ailey Jr., 58, founder of the internationally renowned modern dance company that bears his name, died Friday in a New York City hospital of a blood disorder.

Mr. Ailey had been suffering from the blood disease dyscrasia for a year.

"He was clearly one of the giants of modern dance," said Michael Wright, executive director of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company and one of Ailey's longtime colleagues. "But he also did more for American blacks and American black culture in dance than any other person that I know of."

The choreographer, who assembled the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in ...

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