Alvin Ailey - Cry part 2

In 1971, Alvin Ailey created one of his best-known ballets as a birthday present for his mother. Ailey dedicated it to "all black women everywhere -- especially our mothers." The three-part ballet, set to popular and gospel music by Alice Coltrane, Laura Nyro and Chuck Griffin, depicts a woman's journey through the agonies of slavery to an ecstatic state of grace: