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super291 Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey Dancer of ‘Power and Radiance,’ Dies at 81
Judith Jamisonsuper291, who became an international star with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, first as a majestic dancer and then as the troupe’s director, building it into the most successful modern dance company in the country, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 81.
Her death, at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, was announced by Christopher Zunner, a spokesman for the Ailey company, who said she died “after a brief illness.”
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At 5-foot-10, Ms. Jamison was unusually tall for a woman in her profession. “But anyone who’s seen her onstage is convinced she’s six feet five,” the critic Deborah Jowitt wrote in The New York Times in 1976.
Ms. Jamison (pronounced JAM-ih-son) acknowledged in her 1993 autobiography, “Dancing Spirit,” that “I was the antithesis of the small-boned, demure dancer with a classically feminine shape.”
But it wasn’t just her physical presence that was distinctive; she was a performer of great intelligence, warmth and wit.
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