* 1989 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer ( b. 1931 )

* Jennifer Dunning, Alvin Ailey: A Life in Dance, 1998, Da Capo Press, ISBN 978-0-306-80825-8, 468 pp

* A. Peter Bailey, Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey, 1995, Carol Pub.

** Alvin Ailey, American choreographer ( d. 1989 )

* December 1 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer ( b. 1931 )

Trisha Brown, Cecil Slaughter, Houston Ballet, Ballet Hispanico New York, Mark Morris, Alvin Ailey, the national tours of Wicked and Cinderella, and Tarzan on Broadway.

* Alvin Ailey ( dancer )

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Roach performed with dancers: the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Dianne McIntyre Dance Company, the Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company.

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater opened at 55th Street and Ninth Avenue in 2006.

* The Lighting Archive online complete lighting paperwork for West Side Story, Porgy and Bess, Sweeney Todd, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, by lighting designers Nick Cernovich, Jean Rosenthal, Ken Billington, and Gilbert Helmsley

Alvin Ailey ( 1931 – 1989 ) incorporated African dance elements and black music into his works.

* Alvin Ailey-a student of Lester Horton ( and later Martha Graham ) Ailey spent several years working in both concert and theatre dance.

in 1930 Ailey and a group of young African-American dancers perform as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York.

During her years at Cornell Medical College, Jemison took lessons in modern dance at the Alvin Ailey school.

Because of her love of dance and as a salute to creativity, Jemison took a poster from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Company along with her on the flight.

* Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

She took modern dance classes during this time, and met dancers and choreographers Alvin Ailey and Ruth Beckford.

* 1977 Alvin Ailey, Jr. ( choreographer and dancer )

* Alvin Ailey, African American choreographer and activist

* The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Canadian Ballet have also included her music in their performances ; notably, " Been On A Train " from Christmas and the Beads of Sweat, in which a woman describes watching her lover die from a drug overdose, comprises the second movement of Ailey's 1971 solo for Judith Jamison, Cry.

* Revelations ( Alvin Ailey ), the signature choreographic work of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

She has worked with many renowned choreographers, such as Alvin Ailey, Lar Lubovitch, Donald McKayle, Judith Jamison, Ulysses Dove, Jerome Robbins, Bill T. Jones, Garth Fagan, Katherine Dunham, Hans van Manen and Carmen de Lavallade.

Modern dance choreographers and companies including José Limón, Pearl Lang, Bella Lewitzky, Sophie Maslow, Alwin Nikolais, Merce Cunningham, Ruth Currier, Erick Hawkins, Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey, Twyla Tharp, Eiko & Koma, Seán Curran, Maguy Marin, Pilobolus and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker have all given performances there.

The grave of Coleman HawkinsIn the 1950s, Hawkins performed with more traditional musicians such as Henry " Red " Allen and Roy Eldridge with whom he appeared at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival and recorded Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster with fellow tenor saxophonist Ben Webster along with Oscar Peterson ( piano ), Herb Ellis ( guitar ), Ray Brown ( bass ), and Alvin Stoller ( drums ).

The film was successful enough to spark interest in a sequel, and in 2000, Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman appeared.

According to this letter, when Smith dug up the plates a " salamander " appeared, which transformed itself into a spirit that refused to give Smith the plates unless his brother Alvin Smith was also present.

The Blaster's Dave Alvin appeared to play lead guitar on a handful of tracks.

1970s glam rock singer Alvin Stardust ( who had recently enjoyed a comeback in the charts ) appeared as a performer as did Fiona Kennedy who was at the time a presenter of TV's Record Breakers.

Alvin became a member of country band The Knitters and appeared on their 1987 album Poor Little Critter on the Road and their 2005 follow-up, The Modern Sounds of The Knitters.

He appeared in three guest shots on the show: twice as Ricky Ricardo's boss, Alvin Littlefield, owner of the Tropicana Club where Ricky's band played, and later as a judge on a Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour episode.

In The Alvin Show, Clyde Crashcup appeared in the following segments:

* In 1981, Crashcup appeared on the TV-special A Chipmunk Christmas, in a dream sequence ; he told Alvin that he'd just invented Santa Claus.

During this period she appeared in a series of brief cameo roles in a string of sex comedy films such as Alvin Purple ( 1973 ), and its 1974 sequel Alvin Purple Rides Again.

In 1984 she appeared in Melvin, Son of Alvin.

Since opening, artists that have appeared on NJPAC's stages include the Boston Symphony Orchestra ; Yo-Yo Ma, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Diana Krall, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Twyla Tharp Dance, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Israel Philharmonic, Nancy Wilson and Ramsey Lewis, Royal Danish Ballet, Hilary Hahn, Bill T. Jones, Itzhak Perlman, Sting, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Elvis Costello, the National Song & Dance Company of Mozambique, the Afro-Cuban All-Stars, Audra McDonald, the Buena Vista Social Club, The Chieftains, Dulce Pontes, Alice Coltrane, Salt-N-Pepa, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Christine Ebersole, Jennifer Hudson, Herbie Hancock, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Garrison Keillor, Maurizio Pollini, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Balé Folclorico da Bahia, Peter, Paul & Mary, Savion Glover, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Art Garfunkel, Kodo Drummers, Kirov Orchestra, Martha Graham Dance, Johnny Mathis, New Edition, Angelique Kidjo, Renee Fleming, and Evgeny Kissin.

It has also appeared in many television programs, including Supernatural, Cold Case, Northern Exposure, and Alvin and the Chipmunks, in which it is performed by the titular characters.

In 1958 she married the director Alvin Rakoff, having the previous year appeared in his BBC adaptation of Rod Serling's American television play Requiem for a Heavyweight.

Two of his closest collaborators are Dave Alvin ( formerly of the Blasters ), for whom Leisz produced and played on several records, and Bill Frisell, with whom he tours regularly and appeared on the records Good Dog, Happy Man, Blues Dream and The Intercontinentals.

Leisz's playing has appeared throughout the years on recordings by Tiger Army, Bill Frisell, Dave Alvin, Tracy Chapman, The Smashing Pumpkins, Grant Lee Buffalo, Acetone, Ray Lamontagne, Paula Cole, Matthew Sweet, The Jayhawks, Beck, Meshell Ndegeocello, Bruce Cockburn, Wilco, Shawn Colvin, Lucinda Williams, Mary Gauthier, Peter Case, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Whiskeytown, Girish, The Eagles, Bad Religion, k. d.

Jones was the creative consultant and character designer for two Raggedy Ann animated specials and the first Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas special " A Chipmunk Christmas ".

McMullen showed the city of Houston that he too wanted a winning team, signing nearby Alvin, Texas native Nolan Ryan to the first million-dollar-a-year deal.

In addition to Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays, other memorable members of the Giants teams during the 1950s include: Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher, coach Herman Franks, Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin, outfielder and runnerup for the 1954 NL batting championship ( won by Willie Mays ) Don Mueller, Hall of Fame knuckleball relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, starting pitchers Larry Jansen, Sal Maglie, Jim Hearn, Marv Grissom, Dave Koslo, Don Liddle, Max Lanier, Rubén Gómez, and Johnny Antonelli, catcher Wes Westrum, catchers Ray Katt and Sal Yvars, shortstop Alvin Dark, third baseman Hank Thompson, first baseman Whitey Lockman, second basemen Davey Williams and Eddie Stanky, outfielder, pitcher Clint Hartung, Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst and utility players: Bill Rigney, Daryl Spencer, Bobby Hofman, and Dusty Rhodes among others.

At first Lyle does not appear and Alvin expresses relief when he does.

In 2005, Doe, Cervenka and Bonebrake reunited with Dave Alvin and Johnny Ray Bartel to release a second Knitters album, 20 years after the first, entitled The Modern Sound of the Knitters.

Ryan joined Alvin Little League Baseball when he was nine, made the all-star team when he was 11 and 12, and pitched the first no-hitter of his life a few years later.

In 1963, at an Alvin High School game at Clear Lake High School, New York Mets Scout Red Murff first noticed sophomore pitcher Ryan.

State Highway 225 carried traffic from La Porte along La Porte Road to US 75 in Harrisburg, and State Highway 35 connected Alvin with downtown Houston along Telephone Road and Leeland Street in Navarro County, near Corsicana, was the first Interstate project in Texas approved under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956.

The first settler in Lapeer was Alvin N. Hart, who was born in Cornwall, Connecticut on February 11, 1804.

He first arrived around 1858 in New York City, where he was " probably one of those Chinese mentioned in gossip of the sixties as peddling ' awful ' cigars at three cents apiece from little stands along the City Hall park fence – offering a paper spill and a tiny oil lamp as a lighter ", according to author Alvin Harlow in Old Bowery Days: The Chronicles of a Famous Street ( 1931 ).

Undoubtedly, Alvin Lombard was the first commercial manufacturer of the tractor crawler.

In 1841, Alvin T. and Abigail Smith were among the earliest to use the Oregon Trail and settled on what was first known as West Tualatin Plain.

Ballard and geophysicist Jean Francheteau went down in Alvin the day after the black smokers were first observed.

The term was first popularized in 1970 by Alvin Toffler, and has since become often used in the theory of management of organizations ( particularly online organizations ), further developed by academics such as Henry Mintzberg.

The play was first produced by Arena Stage in Washington, D. C. and debuted on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on October 3, 1968 for a run of 546 performances, directed by Edwin Sherin with James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in the lead roles.

Theodore Alvin Hall ( October 20, 1925 – November 1, 1999 ) was an American physicist and an atomic spy for the Soviet Union, who, during his work on US efforts to develop the first and second atomic bombs during World War II ( the Manhattan Project ), gave a detailed description of the " Fat Man " plutonium bomb, and of several processes for purifying plutonium, to Soviet intelligence.

Randol Fawkes ( the lone Labour MP ) voted to sit with the PLP, and Sir Alvin Braynan, an independent MP, agreed to become Speaker, enabling Pindling to form the first black government in Bahamian history.

* Reverend Trimble ( Alvin Childress ) is the soft-spoken minister of the Central Avenue Baptist Church who dropped by in the first two seasons, usually to officiate a wedding.

His first teaching job was at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where his colleagues included Keith Lehrer, R. C. Sleigh, and Alvin Plantinga.

He recorded Dynamic Fashion Way ( his first successful release ) for Keith Hudson in 1969, and then went on to work with almost every major producer on the island: Lee Perry, Peter Tosh, Bunny Lee, Phil Pratt, Sonia Pottinger, Rupie Edwards, Alvin Ranglin and Lloyd Daley.

In Orson Scott Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker, an alternate history version of Mike Fink appears in every novel after the first.

On 14 March 1970 two American merchant marine sailors, Clyde McKay and Alvin Glatkowski, using guns they had smuggled aboard, seized control of their ship, SS Columbia Eagle, in the first armed mutiny aboard an American ship in 150 years.

It is a generalization of a syntactic analogy between systems of formal logic and computational calculi that was first discovered by the American mathematician Haskell Curry and logician William Alvin Howard.

The first M was first constructed in 1936 when two men, Raymond Medley and Alvin Knoerr climbed the Platte Mound and trudged through 2 feet of snow to form a huge letter M. Actual construction of the stone M began in the spring of 1937 and was completed in the fall of the same year.