The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will not appear in the Kennedy Center’s upcoming season, citing a new global ...

"I felt prepared to carry (the company) forward. Alvin and I were like parts of the same tree. He, the roots and the trunk, and we were the branches. I was his muse. We were all his muses," she ...

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returned to Chicago for the 47th time recently after appearing earlier in the month at the Los Angeles Music Center. The company’s annual appearance is a ...

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 ...

She joined the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1965 ... Jamison later returned and served as the company’s artistic director for 21 years, in which she choreographed an array of repertory ...

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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.