Tuesday, April 2, 2019

It Wasn’t Mine: Why I Had To Stop Dancing Alvin Ailey’s ‘Revelations’

In an essay that won Brown University’s Barbara Banks Brodsky Prize for Excellence in Real World Writing, undergrad Jamila Wilkinson writes about how, as a young girl, she studied for years at Ailey’s school and danced in his masterpiece with the adult company several times — and how, later, she came to realize why she couldn’t connect with the work. – Guernica



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