Judith Jamison obituary by Lyndsey Winship

Dancer and choreographer who rose to fame with Alvin Ailey's company in New York and became its artistic director It was a failed audition that set in motion the superlative career of the American dancer and artistic director Judith Jamison, who has died aged 81. In 1965, the then 22-year-old had spent the summer "pushing buttons at the log flume ride" at New York's World's Fair, when she auditioned for a television …

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