CASE STUDY Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation November 2017 Marking the next phase of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation’s upward growth, construction workers were busily completing the stunning building expansion of the center’s new Elaine Wynn & Family Education Wing. For the past year, the corner of New York City’s 55th Street and 9th Avenue had come alive with the hum of cranes and power tools. Dancers in leotards carrying shoulder-hung dance bags weaved through an assemblage of workers as they made their way through the entrance of The Joan Weill Center for Dance — the building that has been home to New York’s most prominent dance community since 2005 — Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The new Education Wing was designed by Iu + Bibliowicz Architects, the designers of the dance cente

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