Alvin Ailey´s `Revelations´ comes to life in Atlanta schools
(WorldNews Health)

For 21 years former Alvin Ailey principal dancer Nasha Thomas has traveled to Atlanta with a singular mission. In an age when many public schools have gutted or cut back on their arts programs, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Thomas — in a long and important collaboration with the city — have shown the value of art in individual lives. The founder of the renowned New York City-based Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey, who died in 1989, was an advocate for the importance of arts education and believed that bringing the arts to underprivileged communities and to public schools was vital. The “Revelations� Residency Program helmed by Thomas, and which...