![]() ![]() Dancing Spirit contains vivid portraits of many artists Jamison has worked with including Agnes de Mille, Alvin Ailey, Jessye Norman, Geoffrey Holder, Carmen de Lavallade, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, to name only a few. ![]() ![]() Now, with Anchor's paperback publication, an even wider audience can trace the steps of her career: her early years in Philadelphia, where she began studying dance at the age of six, her discovery by Agnes de Mille years of frustration and struggle in a field that favored petite, fair, White women her legendary collaboration with Alvin Ailey her work on Broadway in the musical, Sophisticated Ladies the formation of her own company, the Jamison Project, and her retum to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as artistic director after its founder's death in 1989. Last November, Doubleday published Dancing Spirit, this remarkable woman's autobiography. Her commanding physical presence and extraordinary technique have made her not only a superstar of American dance and an innovator in her field, but also an inspiration to African Americans, to women, and to people of all origins around the world. Judith Jamison is, in every sense, a towering figure. ![]()
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