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Judith Jamison calls Clifton Brown “my muse,” and for her latest dance, Among Us (Private Spaces: Public Places), he is not only performing a pivotal solo role but also serving as her choreographic assistant.
Judith Jamison calls Clifton Brown “my muse,” and for her latest dance, Among Us (Private Spaces: Public Places), he is not only performing a pivotal solo role but also serving as her choreographic assistant.
Judith Jamison's newest moves at famed NYC dance troupe.
Judith Jamison will be celebrated as she begins her 20th year as Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater with TARGET 20 Night - a special performance on December 3rd at 8pm with all tickets priced at $20, sponsored by Target.
Judith Jamison calls Clifton Brown “my muse,” and for her latest dance, Among Us (Private Spaces: Public Places), he is not only performing a pivotal solo role but also serving as her choreographic assistant. She developed her movement ideas with him before she began working with the full cast of 11.
At a recent rehearsal for his new work at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the choreographer Ronald K. Brown didn't tell the dancers what they were doing wrong; he showed them, illustrating the silky, particular undulations of his movement by quietly slipping next to each one and dancing.
Jamison joined the company as a dancer in 1965 and was the lead for 15 years.
“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.
The speakers behind the green sofa and love seat in the sunny living room of Rosa Cruz’s Washington Heights apartment were silent as Ms. Cruz’s 10-year-old granddaughter, Maria Cruz de Leon, shyly danced.
"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."