The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s capital campaign was a well-choreographed project that breathed new life into the organization’s fundraising plan

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

“We wanted the building to not simply serve the needs of the organization but to be for the community as well,” Rink explains, adding that the new building’s 77,000 square feet provides space to rent out studio space at discount rates to community dance groups and support programs for disadvantaged youths, as well as the necessary performance and rehearsal space, offices, physical-therapy facilities and the like.