Support Provided By

2:56
Ailey describes his "blood memories" and an impactful friendship.

1:51
Rennie Harris choreographed a piece about Ailey for the 60th anniversary of the company.

2:24
Ailey's "Revelations" performance depicted the "Black experience."
2:08
How the logs that Charles Ingalls used for the little house belonged to Osage Indians.
0:55
"Eight Jelly Rolls" was one of Twyla Tharp's first music-inspired choreographed dances.

2:00
Twyla Tharp provide an inside look at the way she approaches her work.

1:11
He even incorporated it into his wardrobe.
1:07
Sacks wondered if he might be next.

1:26
He used storytelling to connect people with great challenges "back into the world."
4:06
Recent scholarship has shed light on this secret collaboration.

2:20
Until she became a best-selling author, making ends meet was a struggle.
2:14
Disaster struck with the arrival of the Rocky Mountain locust invasion of 1875.