- Paul Kolnik
- Four Corners
In 1958, Alvin Ailey set out to choreograph the moral enlightenment of the African-American soul. Revelations was an immediate, irresistible success. It bridged the spiritually downtrodden condition of enslaved blacks and the spiritual ecstasy that free blacks experienced in Southern Baptist churches; it had a backbone that moved with the fluid pulp of sorrow and jubilation and everything in between.
