“That really opened up the possibilities for the film,” Wignot said. READ MORE: Alvin Ailey’s beautiful vision for dance, captured in thousands of photos Ailey.” Thankfully, Wingot made a pivotal discovery that helped inch closer to an answer: Revealing audio recordings that he conducted in the last year of his life. The documentary is partially framed around a new staging of a classic Ailey dance from choreographer Rennie Harris, who, like Wignot, is trying to figure out “what made Mr.
It may have been intentional on his part: Despite his fame, Ailey was a private person. She’d been a fan of Ailey influential modern dance work and his company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, but realized she didn’t know much about him beyond that. “Ailey” director Jamila Wignot said the project found her in 2017. Jones and D-Man in the Waters,” which is currently in theaters. So it’s a fateful coincidence that this summer both men are getting the spotlight in two terrific documentaries: “Ailey,” opening nationwide on Aug.
A few years later in 1989, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Jones, then famous in his own right, would create one of his most notable works and a response to the crisis: “D-Man in the Waters.” It was also the year Ailey died at age 58 of complications from the disease. Ailey was the one who commissioned Jones’ first work, “Fever Swap,” in 1983. Jones may have a generation between them, but the two influential choreographers crossed paths at a few pivotal moments.
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