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Judith Jamison

Since babyhood, I’ve always evolved from one thing to another. My mother gave me ballet lessons at 6 as part of her enthusiasm for the arts and for life. We went to museums, to the theater. While her own talent was untapped, she worked for church causes.

– Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison

My idea for the Jamison Project was rather like a pickup company. The idea was to give the dancers a taste of the menu. Today, dancers need to try as many companies as possible without having a drop-dead loyalty to me or anyone else. They like to have the leeway to go their own way.

– Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison

I tell young people that people aren’t just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to seek them out. It could be your next-door neighbor; it could be somebody upstairs from you, somebody down the block from you. An aunt or an uncle. Some relative. A parent.

– Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison

Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.

– Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison

My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, ‘Look, it’s not going to be scandalized. I’m not going to talk about anybody like a dog. I’m going to say the positiveness of my life, and talk about those who have contributed to the way I’ve been going, and that’s that.’

– Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison

I’m very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there’s a whole lot of dancing going on.

– Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison

I’ve had a really charmed life, you know. Things always come to me – they just do.

– Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison

Maybe it’s a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

– Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison

You wake up white, and you think about certain things every day. You wake up black, and you think about certain things. You wake up Chinese, and you think certain things – but those things aren’t major. What’s major is that you are good at your craft.

– Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison

As long as there are dancers around who love to dance, there will be an Alvin Ailey American Dance Company. We miss him so much, but he’s alive as soon as you see a dancer hit the stage.

– Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison

As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is on the other foot and I have to trust everyone else – I have to trust the dancer. As I was trusted as a dancer, I trust my dancers.

– Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.

– Judith Jamison

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