Orange County Register - Allegiance to Alvin Ailey
Artistic director Judith Jamison reflects on her long relationship with the dance company and its late founder.
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Associated Press - Jamison wishes Ailey could see 50th anniversary
Judith Jamison remembers standing backstage glowing with joy when President Barack Obama and his family received a standing ovation at a recent Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performance. She wished her mentor was still alive to see it all.
Charlie Rose.com - A Conversation with Judith Jamison
A conversation with Judith Jamison, Arts Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Dance Magazine - Why I Dance
If I could take a guess, I would simply say that God designed my body to move. I can't sit still for more than 10 minutes. I can't read and listen to music at the same time because my mind starts choreographing.
Dance Teacher Magazine - Honors List
Sylvia Waters and Judith Jamison
New York Post - All the right moves
It was almost three decades ago that the late, great choreographer Alvin Ailey asked his good friend and former dancer Judith Jamison to take over his young and esteemed company.
Dance Magazine - They Define Excellence in Male Dancing
At two recent galas, Daniel Ulbricht at NYCB and Matthew Rushing at Ailey took my breath away.
Dance Magazine - Spotlight on Stage Presence: Advice from eight dancers who've mastered it
I think stage presence goes hand in hand with maturity.
Smithsonian - 37 Under 36: America's Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences
Alicia J. Graf was waiting at the Alvin Ailey dance studio in Manhattan for the us to the airport. She was dressed in jeans and a soft gray sweater, her voluminous curls, usually worn loose, pulled back in a knot. She was clutching dozens of pages of a grueling tour schedule that would dictate the next 16 weeks of her life. First stop: Jackson, Mississippi, then several other cities in the South, a hop up to Chicago, finally winding down with shows in Boston and elsewhere in the Northeast.
The Washington Post - Alicia Graf, Rising to a Greater Height
Some of the best advice dancer Alicia Graf ever got came from her mother: Since you're tall, you'll always stand out, so you might as well be glorious. Maybe that's why at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performances at the Kennedy Center this week, Graf leaps and turns and extends her legs so high it's as if she's trying to play footsy with God.