Dance

Ailey Recalled: Dancer-choreographer Alvin Ailey was remembered for his innovations and artistic passion as a modern dance pioneer Tuesday night by about 100 friends and relatives during a 1 1/2-hour funeral service at the First Baptist Church of Artesia. The modest ceremony followed a memorial in New York last Friday attended by 5,000. Mourners included Jasmine Guy, co-star of NBC’s “A Different World,” who sang the hymn “His Eye Is on the Sparrow.” “He believed that dance could and should reach everyone. Not through the eyes, ears and intellect alone but through the heart and gut as well,” wrote Jennifer Dunning in the memorial notes. Ailey, 58, died Dec. 1 of a blood disorder. He was buried Wednesday morning at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier. The Associated Press said there were reports that Ailey had been treated for complications related to acquired immune deficiency syndrome during the last year.