New Alvin Ailey documentary offers a fuler view of the modern dance pioneer

Listening to his recollections, paired with moody and evocative archival footage of the Deep South, it’s clear that Ailey was destined to bounce. It’s as if dance strikes unfolded from his DNA. When he describes his rural childhood, it’s by way of motion and the position of our bodies in house. He speaks of “individuals shifting within the twilight,” “being glued to my mom’s hip, sloshing by means of the terrain, branches slashing towards a toddler’s physique . . . in search of a spot to be.”