Dance Magazine - Dance Magazine Awards: Sylvia Waters
Once, while on tour, Alvin Ailey noticed a young company member gazing wistfully out of the bus window. "She must be thinking about her son," he said to himself. And Sylvia Waters was.
Leadership
Charlie Rose.com - A Conversation with Judith Jamison
A conversation with Judith Jamison, Arts Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Dance Teacher Magazine - Honors List
Sylvia Waters and Judith Jamison
Roots and Relationships in Chicago: Interview with Denise Jefferson - Director of The Ailey School in New York
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was founded in 1958. Choreographer, dancer, and director Alvin Ailey played an important role in cultivating opportunities for African-American modern dancers, presenting choreography that explored a wide range of the black experience.
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.
New York Times - Ailey's Creative New Digs With Room for Comfort
In a well-known segment of Alvin Ailey's signature dance, ''Revelations,'' performed to the spiritual ''Wade in the Water,'' dancers wave swaths of billowy blue fabric to simulate a river.
Time Magazine - Back To Their Roots
The Ailey company's tour leaves South Africa dancing in the aisles.