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If people all over the world, year after year, request that you do 'Revelations,' you do 'Revelations.'

~Judith Jamison

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One thing I cannot stand is when people say, 'Hi, how are you?' and they don't wait to hear how I am. They're just going through the motions. I say to people: 'Keep it human. Keep it alive. Don't turn into a robot.' You have to hear what the other person is saying clearly.

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I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not trying to belittle what I do, but I think of myself as a dancer first. I'll always be a dancer.

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The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It's a cornucopia of ways to move. There are choreographers in the company as - as diverse, as different from each other as Donald McKayle and Bill T. Jones, or Jawole Zollar and John Butler, Lar Lubovitch, you know, and Judith Jamison.

~Judith Jamison

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I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.

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As long as there are dancers around who love to dance, there will be an Alvin Ailey American Dance Company. We miss him so much, but he's alive as soon as you see a dancer hit the stage.

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You wake up white, and you think about certain things every day. You wake up black, and you think about certain things. You wake up Chinese, and you think certain things - but those things aren't major. What's major is that you are good at your craft.

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Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

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I've had a really charmed life, you know. Things always come to me - they just do.

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I'm very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there's a whole lot of dancing going on.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: May 10th, 1943

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