Ailey

It is an educational journey, an uncompromising look into the challenges of an artistic life...

The film’s integration of filmed performance excerpts of Ailey’s most stellar work is the highlight here...

...Wignot rebuilds a lonely, driven life that created great art and answers a question Ailey himself must has asked more than once. Was it worth it? Yes it was.

What emerges is Ailey’s lifelong seriousness and his vocational purpose in dance.

...a true artist speaks through his work, and it’s appropriate that the revelations in “Ailey” arrive via the dance scenes.