1: Revelations 1962
Why revelations worked
BREAK Black modernism
Situating revelations in African American cultural life
2: Early dances
Ailey's childhood: race matters
BREAK Unquenchable racial desire
Blues suite
Ailey's early dances
Hermit songs
3: Early company
Early years in New York
Early residencies
Southeast Asia tour
BREAK "Official" African American culture
Riedaiglia
4: Revelations II: 1969
BREAK Versioning
Multiracial concert dance
Revelations 1975
5: Touring, touring, touring
Quintet
Swelling popularity
BREAK Jazz dance
Flowers
The popular audience
BREAK No exit from racism
6: Reflecting a spectrum of experience
Masekela language
The lark ascending
Hidden rites
7: Other dances
Feast of ashes
BREAK Black dancer, white dance
The river
8: Ailey celebrates Ellington
The Ellington connection
BREAK Heroes
Ailey celebrates Ellington
Pas de "Duke"
Ellingtonia
9: Gender and spectatorship
Cry
Love songs
Masked spectatorship: Ailey's representation of sexuality
BREAK Sex
Streams
BREAK Black Atlantic dance
10: Later dances
Memoria
Au Bord du Precipice
Survivors
BREAK Alvin Ailey, public and private
11: Concluding moves
The Ailey after Ailey
Revelations 2003.