Judith Jamison
Judith Jamison
Judith Ann Jamisonis an American dancer and choreographer, best known as the Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDancer
Date of Birth10 May 1943
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
full people
The world is full of ways for people to dance. Concert dance doesn't get its due.
breathing dancing
Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it's like breathing.
children pride self-worth
It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.
native-american african-american gone
I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?
children believe world
I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable. Ever since I was a child I have believed that my life has been guided.
way
Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.
dance dancer threshold
Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.
class ballet age
I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
commitment dedication years
Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn't work for everybody. It's the lifestyle, it's the stamina, it's the love, it's the dedication, it's the commitment, it's all those words.
names games african-american
Excellence is the name of the game...
fall opposites soul
I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.
competition trying being-the-best
I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.
light people negativity
So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.
mother father eye
I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.