Legendary HOF Choreographer Alvin Ailey signed American Dance FDC cover theater

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Legendary choreographer and founder of the namesake Alvin Ailey Dance Theater personally autographed this 1978 "American Dance" first day cover and inscribed it beneath his signature, New York City, August 25, 1978. A COA from Hudson Valley Autographs accompanies this item and shipping and insurance is .
Alvin Ailey
(January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an African-American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist who founded the
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
(AAADT). He created AAADT and its affiliated Ailey School as havens for nurturing black artists and expressing the universality of the African-American experience through dance. His work fused theatre, modern dance, ballet, and jazz with black vernacular, creating hope-fueled choreography that continues to spread global awareness of black life in America. Ailey's choreographic masterpiece
Revelations
is recognized as one of the most popular and most performed ballets in the world.
In this work he blended primitive, modern and jazz elements of dance with a concern for black rural America.
On July 15, 2008, the
United States Congress
passed a resolution designating AAADT a “vital American cultural ambassador to the World.”
That same year, in recognition of AAADT's 50th anniversary, then Mayor
Michael Bloomberg
declared December 4 "Alvin Ailey Day" in New York City while then Governor
David Paterson
honored the organization on behalf of New York State.
In 1968 Ailey was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada.
In 1977 he received the
Spingarn Medal
from the
NAACP
.
He received the
Kennedy Center Honors
in 1988 and was inducted into the
National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame
in 1992.