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Judith Jamison is an American modern dance choreographer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Jamison is a very talented she was taught to play the piano and violin. The art culture in Philadelphia helped develop her artistic background. “I was born in 1943, it was a very intense time in Philadelphia, artistically, spiritually, emotionally, and racially,” said Jamison. “There were things going on there that I’m glad I grew up with, all these things colored my career,” she continued to say. She began dancing at a very young age when she attended the Judimar School of Dance. She began to believe that she didn’t want to be a dancer being a dancer is something she needed to do. While attending this school she studied both ballet and modern dance. She then attended Fisk University where she studies Psychology for three semesters and then left to return to her hometown to attend the Philadelphia Dance Academy. At the Philadelphia Dance Academy she studied in addition to dance, kinesiology, dance history, and labanotation; which is the structured dance notation.
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