About the Artists

Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey founder

Matthew Rushing

Matthew Rushing associate artistic director

Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison artistic director emerita

Ronni Favors

Ronni Favors rehearsal director

Clifton Brown assistant rehearsal director

Bennett Rink

Bennett Rink executive director

Tara Bellardini dancer

Ballet Hispanico Leonardo Brito

Leonardo Brito dancer

Patrick Coker

Patrick Coker dancer

A portrait photo of Shawn Cusseaux from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, a young black man with short curly hair and a light goatee.

Shawn Cusseaux dancer

Sarah Daley-Perdomo dancer

Caroline T. Dartey dancer

A portrait photo of Isaiah Day smiling brightly, a young black man with short dark hair, from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Isaiah Day dancer

A portrait photo of Coral Dolphin from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, a young black woman with a nose ring and red hair woven into an intricate braid on the crown of her head.

Coral Dolphin dancer

Solomon Dumas

Solomon Dumas dancer

Samantha Figgins dancer

James Gilmer dancer

Vernard Gilmore

Vernard J. Gilmore dancer

Ashley Kaylynn Green dancer

Jacquelin Harris dancer

Michael Jackson, Jr. dancer

Yannick Lebrun

Yannick Lebrun dancer

Xavier Mack dancer

Renaldo Maurice

Renaldo Maurice dancer

Corrin Rachelle Mitchell dancer

Chalvar Monteiro dancer

Jesse Obremski dancer

Kali Marie Oliver dancer

Alisha Rena Peek dancer

Jessica Amber Pinkett dancer

Miranda Quinn dancer

Hannah Alissa Richardson dancer

Deidre Rogan dancer

Constance Stamatiou Lopez

Constance Stamatiou dancer

Christopher Taylor dancer

Fana Minea Tesfagiorgis dancer

De’Anthony Vaughan dancer

Dandara Veiga dancer

Isabel Wallace-Green dancer

Christopher R. Wilson dancer