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Judith Jamison Quotes

1943–2024 United States

Judith Jamison (May 10, 1943 – November 9, 2024) was an American dancer and choreographer, best known as the artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

United States
Dancers

Also known as: Jamison, Judith

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I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

One you have danced, you always dance.

I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Judith Jamison (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.