biography
pronunciation:
[jaymisn]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1943– )
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| biography:
| Modern dancer, choreographer, and artistic director, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She trained early in dance and music, and attended the Philadelphia Dance Academy before performing with American Ballet Theatre in 1964. She joined Alvin Ailey (1965) and performed leading roles created especially for her, as in Cry (1971). In 1980 she left the company to appear in the Broadway musical, Sophisticated Ladies, and her first choreographed work, Divining, was staged in 1984. She dissolved her own Jamison Project (formed 1988) when she became artistic director of the Alvin Ailey Company shortly after his death in 1989. |
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