Alvin Ailey

Ailey

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

It is an educational journey, an uncompromising look into the challenges of an artistic life...

...reaffirming [Alvin Ailey’s] status as one of the most widely respected innovators in his field.

The film’s integration of filmed performance excerpts of Ailey’s most stellar work is the highlight here...

...Wignot rebuilds a lonely, driven life that created great art and answers a question Ailey himself must has asked more than once. Was it worth it? Yes it was.