Accessibility Information
Edges of Ailey

The Whitney invites all visitors to explore Edges of Ailey, the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey. To make the most of your visit, review accessibility-related information about the exhibition, located on Floor 5, before you arrive. If you need to request accessibility accommodations, please review our Accessibility page.

Floor 5

• The exhibition includes multimedia artworks, paintings, sculptures, installations in space, and videos. We invite you to engage with these works but unless explicitly noted otherwise, please do not touch artworks in the exhibition.
• The exhibition is enveloped by a surround video created by Josh Begley and Kya Lou with Adrienne Edwards. This video contains flashing and strobing effects that should be avoided by people who have photosensitive epilepsy or who may be susceptible to seizures. 
• Synchronous mobile captions for this video can be found here: https://captioner.whitney.org/work/120
• The entire exhibition is filled with high volumes of sound, primarily from the surround video.
• The exhibition contains very low lighting and walls and pedestals are painted a deep red.
• Staff from Visitor Services will be stationed at the 5^th floor elevators to help with way finding.
• Labels for the artwork will be located on 6” pedestals stemming from the floor near the artwork. 
• In the section “Blackness in Dance”, there is a Lorna Simpson two-channel video on monitors that will have the subtle sounds of dancers dancing (feet tapping).
• In the section “Black Music”, there is a work by Charles Gaines that will play music. 
• In the section “Ailey’s Influences”, there will be several videos that will have headphones. These are videos of different choreographers or dances that influenced and/or collaborated with Ailey.
• Ear plugs are available at the elevators on the  5^th floor. Ear defenders and fidgets are available upon request. 
• Benches are offered throughout the exhibition. 
• All videos in this exhibition contain captions in English directly on the video and/or in mobile caption format. 
• Verbal descriptions of select artworks in English are available on the Mobile Guide.
• Audio Description and ASL interpretation will be available for select performances. Learn more here: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/edges-of-ailey/performances.
• Multiple tours, programs and performances will be designed for visitors with a wide range of disabilities to further engage with the Edges of Ailey exhibit. For more information, go to our Access Programs page.