The dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison in 2006. “Jamison doesn’t show you steps,” one critic wrote, “she uses them to show you a woman dancing.”Credit...Chester Higgins Jr./The New ...

NEW YORK — Judith Jamison, an internationally acclaimed dancer who later served as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for two decades, has died. She was 81. Jamison died ...

NEW YORK — There are few images more indelible in the history of American dance: Judith Jamison, regal and passionate in white leotard and long ruffled skirt, punching the air in “Cry ...

Nov 10 (Reuters) - Judith Jamison, an acclaimed dancer and choreographer who for two decades was artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, died on Saturday in New York at the ...

By The Associated Press Judith Jamison, an internationally acclaimed dancer who later served as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for two decades, has died. She was 81.