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The Company Travels on "The Station Wagon" Tours
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Alvin Ailey and a group of young black modern dancers perform for the first time as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at New York's 92nd Street YW-YMHA.
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50 Years of Alvin Ailey
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Ailey choreographs his masterpiece, "Revelations," which brings the company international acclaim.
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Judith Jamison dances with the company for the first time. She'll be one of the most recognized and lauded members of the troupe during her 15-year career as a dancer.
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Ailey choreographs Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra" to open new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.
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Company receives its first grant from Rockefeller Foundation and performs at the White House for President Johnson.
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Company and school relocate to Manhattan to share renovated church building with choreographer Pearl Lang; company makes six-week tour of Soviet Union, the first for an American modern dance company since the days of Isadora Duncan.
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Company appears for the first time at New York City Center and takes part in the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.Company appears for the first time at New York City Center and
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Ailey choreographs "Carmen" for Metropolitan Opera.
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Company performs at Duke Ellington Festival at Lincoln Center with Ellington Orchestra.
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Ailey choreographs "Pas de Duke" for Jamison and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who receive keys to New York City.
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Company performs at Jimmy Carter's inaugural gala.
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Company, Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble and Alvin Ailey American Dance Center relocate to four new studios built to their specifications in a building on Broadway.
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Company celebrates 25th anniversary.
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Company is first modern dance troupe to go on a U.S. government-sponsored tour of the People's Republic of China since normalization of Sino-American relations.
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Ailey receives Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime contribution to American culture through the performing arts.
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Ailey chooses Jamison to be his successor as company's artistic director; he dies in December at the age of 58.
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Company performs for first time at Paris Opera.
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Company performs at televised inaugural gala for President Bill Clinton.
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Jamison receives Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime contribution to American culture through the performing arts.
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Company holds historic residency in South Africa, signaling end to long cultural boycott of the old apartheid regime.
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Jamison wins Emmy Award in category of outstanding choreography for work on hourlong PBS "Great Performances" documentary, "A Hymn for Alvin Ailey."
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Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation announces plans for construction of a new dance complex, which will become the largest in the country dedicated exclusively to dance.
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President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush award the National Medal of Arts to both Jamison and Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation.
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U.S. Postal Service issues first-class postage stamp honoring Ailey as part of the American Choreographers stamp series; Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation opens Joan Weill Center for Dance, the company's first permanent home, in Manhattan.
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Company returns to Russia after 15-year absence as the only American troupe to perform in Stars of the White Nights Festival. Company makes first-ever tour of the United Kingdom.
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Company begins celebrating 50th anniversary.