Edges of Ailey video surround crediting

Images, film, video, music, and audio excerpts are courtesy of those listed on the digital label for the video surround. Where applicable, acknowledgment for additional rights holders is included below.


  • ABCNEWS VideoSource
  • ACT UP and Lesbian and Gay Pride 1987 footage provided by Jim Hubbard
  • Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc., Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA
  • The Associated Press
  • Bearden Plays Bearden, LLC
  • Black Delta Religion, filmed, recorded, and directed by William Ferris, William R. Ferris Collection, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, used by permission, with all rights reserved
  • Footage supplied by British Pathé
  • CBS News
  • Dance Spotlight, Inc.
  • Eye on Dance interview © 1989 Artist Resources in Collaboration, Inc., with thanks to Celia Ipiotis and Jeff Bush
  • James Lipton Productions
  • Jan Plomp, Artisan, The Netherlands
  • Courtesy The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC
  • Kinolibrary
  • Library of Congress, Music Division, Washington, DC
  • LOLA CLIPS/ITV Archive
  • Louis Johnson Estate
  • Footage from “The Murder of Fred Hampton” provided by The Chicago Film Archives
  • Courtesy the New York Public Library
  • Choreography by Dwight Rhoden
  • © 1986 RM Arts DR/Musikafdelingen
  • Ellen Spiro/Spiro Films
  • Footage from Stormy Weather courtesy 20th Century Studios, Inc. All rights reserved
  • Studio 54 archival footage: Susan Hillary Shapiro and Glenn Albin
  • Tatge Productions, Inc., and Ellis B. Haizlip Company
  • Tongues Untied to footage courtesy Marlon Riggs/Frameline Distribution
  • The WNET Group
  • From A Time to Dance, Episode #8 “Ethnic Dance: Roundtrip to Trinidad” (1959), Courtesy WGBH Educational Foundation and 2. On Being Black: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (1969), Courtesy WGBH Educational Foundation **minimally include: “Courtesy of WGBH Educational Foundation”
  • UNESCO, Alexandru Sahia Studios, and the Romanian National Commission for UNESCO
  • Courtesy William Greaves Productions

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