“People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them,” Judith Jamison once said. Jamison may not be performing herself this year, but her particular brand of majestic sinuousness will dazzle audiences when Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrates its fiftieth anniversary—and Jamison’s twentieth as artistic director—with a special performance tonight to kick off their five-week New York season.
It's all about Judy, pardon me, Ms. Jamison, that is, tonight at City Center, where Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its esteemed artistic director.
"I'm sixty-six now, so I'm trying to divest myself of a lot of stuff, but the things I carry on tour with me are my drawing materials: old fashioned China markers - the kind where you have to pull the string - and pads from Borden & Riley."
As a child in north St. Louis, pretty much the only jumping Antonio Douthit did was to leap out of a window and land on a mattress.
Judith Jamison is about to begin her 20th year as artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
In the arts world, especially in the dance community, long term survival is never a certainty. Surviving a founder’s death is a noteworthy accomplishment. Thriving is a rarity.
Judith Jamison was a big, gangling girl no one in dance knew quite what to do with. Alvin Ailey discovered her when she stumbled against him, fleeing a failed Broadway audition soon after she arrived from Philadelphia to look for work in New York.
My greatest gift is the gift of living art: two tickets to a new work, Among Us (Private Spaces: Public Places), choreographed by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre artistic director Judith Jamison.
When Judith Jamison was growing up in Philadelphia, her dream was to be a pilot. Ultimately, she found another way to fly, becoming a star with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Ailey dancers mark 20 years under Judith Jamison.