

38 minutes that'll wreck your soul and make you believe in dance again.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs Takademe and Ailey's masterpiece Revelations. From 2016.
Direction
Diamond captures bodies like they're holy relics in motion.
Costume
Those purple dresses in 'I Wanna Be Ready' — iconic.

Director
Matthew Diamond
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Revelations is the most seen modern dance work in history — over 23 million people have witnessed it live.
Ailey drew from his Texas childhood and 'blood memories' of Black church; the piece was his answer to white modern dance that excluded Black bodies.
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