Judith Jamison

This spring Jamison steps down from the Ailey company's helm after 20 years of keeping her mentor's mission alive. "Alvin would have hated that word, 'mission.' It gets used because we've turned into an organization, so therefore we have a mission. I think vision is the word, because he was a vi-sion-ary."...  

Alvin Ailey Dancers Honor Judith Jamison, Their Queen for 20 yearsVillage Voiceand Tina Monica Williams unite to vamp us and dance alone to depict, respectively, Florence Mills, Josephine Baker, and Ethel Waters. ...  

In today's times, a 20th anniversary of any sort is not to be taken lightly, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is giving due praise to the milestone of Judith Jamison's tenure as the company's artistic director in its current City Center ...  

The “Best of 20 Years” program presented as an homage featured a long series of excerpts from dances that Judith Jamison has commissioned, revived or acquired for the company.  

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater” Members of the company in “Dancing Spirit,” a new work by Ronald K. Brown inspired by the Ailey’s longtime artistic director, Judith Jamison...  

Judith Jamison’s newest work offers all the broad, received-wisdom outlines of emotion, and none of the messier, less pleasing truths.  

Ms. Jamison's tribute to Alvin Ailey is a choreographic tapestry featuring the entire Company while Smith as actress/raconteuse has gathered personal vignettes of the dancers and interspersed them throughout the work, creating a picture-biography of ...  

The Children's Museum of Manhattan (CMOM) will host "Ailey Day of Dance" on Saturday, November 14, 2009. "Ailey Day of Dance" is presented by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and will feature workshops led by Ailey II, the second company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, in addition to special performances of Isba, choreographed by Alvin Ailey.  

Judith Jamison, the longtime artistic director of the acclaimed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, is now in her 20th season, following a distinguished career as a performer.  

On Tuesday night “Ailey Highlights,” an excerpt-a-thon of works that was created last year for the dance theater’s 20th anniversary, returned to City Center.