Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself. — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
The world is full of ways for people to dance. Concert dance doesn't get its due. — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults. — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete,… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
I could say now at 66, yeah, I was a fabulous dancer. I was really terrific, you know. But I was always… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
We're dancing from here, from inside, not from outside. You could look at anybody throwing their leg and kick their leg up… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on,… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn't… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
My idea for the Jamison Project was rather like a pickup company. The idea was to give the dancers a taste of… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It's a cornucopia of ways… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
It's called the Ailey American Dance Theatre, not the Alvin Ailey African-American Dance Theatre. One thing also that Alvin wanted people to… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there's a whole lot of dancing… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Since babyhood, I've always evolved from one thing to another. My mother gave me ballet lessons at 6 as part of her… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not trying to… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
As long as there are dancers around who love to dance, there will be an Alvin Ailey American Dance Company. We miss… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance — Judith Jamison Copy Share
At 10, I could walk down the street and see over everybody's head. I don't remember being little or having to look up at… — Judith Jamison Copy Share
It's called the Ailey American Dance Theatre, not the Alvin Ailey African-American Dance Theatre. One thing also that Alvin wanted people to recognize, he… — Judith Jamison Copy Share
You wake up white, and you think about certain things every day. You wake up black, and you think about certain things. You wake… — Judith Jamison Copy Share
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… — Judith Jamison Copy Share
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… — Judith Jamison Copy Share
I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults. — Judith Jamison Copy Share
I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a lot of… — Judith Jamison Copy Share
People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They… — Judith Jamison Copy Share
It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride… — Judith Jamison Copy Share
As long as there are dancers around who love to dance, there will be an Alvin Ailey American Dance Company. We miss him so… — Judith Jamison Copy Share
I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed. — Judith Jamison Copy Share
I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I… — Judith Jamison Copy Share
