Jamila Wignot's documentary about choreographer Alvin Ailey has absorbing testimonies and a look at his secret private life Jamila Wignot's documentary is a tribute to the work of the African American dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey, a man who grew up in Texas during the Great Depression and Jim Crow years " and embraced his destiny in dance in California, where his mother had taken him as a child while she was …
