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Overview – Few dance troupes can boast a reputation as solid as Alvin Ailey's. Ever since its NYC debut, the troupe has enjoyed a constant stream of critical successes. This is due in part to the troupe's skill at cultivating new performers through both a junior company--Ailey II has developed quite a reputation of its own--and the Ailey School, which trains children ages three and up. – – The Background – Today the AAADC is as much a product of artistic director Judith Jamison as Ailey (who died in 1989). Ailey melded the black experience, jazz inflected movement,…