Judith Jamison, transcendent dancer and artistic director of Alvin Ailey company, dies at 81

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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.

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Jamison grew up in Philadelphia and trained there in ballet from a young age. At a time when Black dancers were rare in ballet, she began with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1965. As a dancer, choreographer, director and speaker, her distinguished career leaped over barriers of race and gender.

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