| A Film by | 
			        Linda Atkinson and Nick Doob | 
		          
			      
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                    | With | 
			        Carmen de Lavallade 
Geoffrey Holder 
Boscoe Holder 
Leo Holder 
Gus Solomons jr 
Dudley Williams 
Judith Jamison 
Jennifer Dunning 
Alvin Ailey 
Josephine Baker | 
		          
			      
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                    | Dancers | 
			        Janet Collins 
James Truitte 
Skoogie Brown 
Ulysses Dove 
Briana Reed 
Matthew Rushing 
Stephenie Mills 
Joanne Bonding 
Greg Barker 
Henry Valentino 
Bill Myers 
Carl Hall 
Ella Mitchell 
Ann Duquesnay 
Eartha Kitt 
Venessa Shaw 
Ira Hawkins 
Renee Robinson 
Glenn A. Sims 
Bahiyah Sayyed 
Clifton Brown | 
		          
			      
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                    | Choreographers | 
                    Geoffrey Holder 
Lester Horton 
John Butler 
Joe Layton 
Alvin Ailey 
George Faison 
Carmen de Lavallade | 
                  
                  
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                    | Also Appearing | 
                    John Lahr 
Ray Bolger 
Rev. Calvin O. Butts, III | 
                  
                  
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                    | Photography | 
                    Nick Doob | 
                  
                  
                    | Additional Photography | 
                    Leo Holder 
Ron Gray | 
                  
                  
                    | Sound | 
                    Linda Atkinson | 
                  
                  
                    | Editing | 
                    Nick Doob | 
                  
                  
                    | Sound Mix | 
                    Paul Furedi 
Sony Music Studios | 
                  
                  
                    | Legal | 
                    Karen Shatzkin 
Shatzkin & Mayer | 
                  
                  
                    | Thanks to | 
                    Abyssinian Baptist Church  
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 
American Folk Art Museum  
British West Indies Airlies 
Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth 
Holder Family Archive 
Joyce Theater  
Limon Video Rental 
Metropolitan Museum of Art 
New York Public Library Dance Division 
Paradigm  
Symphony Space 
Towson State University  
Trinidad Hilton Hotel | 
                  
                  
                    | And | 
                    Jane Balfour 
Marjorie Boothman 
Yvonne Davis 
Ronni Favors 
Chris Hegedus 
Leo Holder 
Sheila Holder 
Judith Jamison 
Elaine E. Johnson 
Kerry Kreiman 
George Lindsey 
Monica Moseley 
Lorry & Mark Newhouse 
Beth Olsen   
D A Pennebaker 
Dennis Price 
Dwight Rhoden 
Karen Shatzkin 
Isaiah Sheffer 
Martin Wechsler | 
                  
                  
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                    This film was made possible with the support of The National Endowment for the Arts                      |