In Photos: Celebrating Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Jacqueline Green in a 2015 staging of Revelations, which is performed to a soundtrack of African-American spirituals, gospel and blues.

Photograph: Paul Kolnik

A scene from Reminiscin’ performed by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at Sadler’s Wells, London, in 2005.

Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Four Corners by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at Sadler’s Wells in 2016

Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian