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

DANCE Posted: April 2, 2019 9:02 am

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

DANCE Published: 03.15.19, sj

Read the story in Guernica Published: 03.15.19, sj

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