Ailey

Ailey's story is interspersed with rehearsal scenes of a new work celebrating the 50th anniversary of the company he founded.

This captivating documentary portrait of the choreographer Alvin Ailey, who died in 1989, treads a fine line between loving memorial and unfettered hagiography.

Poeticism ebbs and flows throughout Wignot's impressonistic mediation, fluctuating in parts.

What emerges is Ailey's lifelong seriousness and his vocational purpose in dance.

You leave "Ailey" hoping that, somewhere, he's watching still.

Poetic -- absolutely beautiful.

AILEY is a loving look at a dance pioneer, meticulously thorough in its content yet never losing the joy, rage, and striving for excellence that characterised Ailey and generations of his disciples... Thoroughly engrossing and historically rich...

The film works best when his collaborators, particularly artistic director Judith Jamison and guest choreographer Bill T. Jones, provide insight into Ailey’s private nature and his lonely artistic sojourn

A moving and vibrant look into the life of an artist that is structured in such a way that any viewer can take something meaningful from it.

Equally intriguing as a capturing of Alvin Ailey's life story and as a celebration of the impact his career left behind; this is an easy recommendation and does the legendary artist the justice which he deserves.