Brown with musical accompaniment by Duke Ellington, Marsalis, and War. One of the season’s highlights includes the world premiere of Dancing Spirit, a tribute to Jamison by Ronald K. Now, a restaged Jamison piece originally commissioned for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in honor of track-and-field phenom Florence Griffith Joyner set to live, onstage music led by the inimitable Wynton Marsalis. The one-night-only opening performance at City Center will include Here. Jamison may not be performing herself this year, but her particular brand of majestic sinuousness will dazzle audiences when Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrates its fiftieth anniversary-and Jamison’s twentieth as artistic director-with a special performance tonight to kick off their five-week New York season. “People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them,” Judith Jamison once said.
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