At a time when Black dancers were rare in ballet, she began with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1965. Tall, graceful and expressive, she became one of the company's most famous ...

Judith Jamison, an internationally acclaimed dancer who later served as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for two decades, has died. She was 81.

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