Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American CultureIn the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil Rights struggle. In Dancing Revelations, Thomas DeFrantz chronicles the troupe's journey from a small modern dance company to one of the premier