{"product_id":"dancing-spirit-9780385425582","title":"Dancing Spirit","description":"\u003cp\u003eJudith Jamison is  in every sense  a towering figure. Her commanding physical presence and extraordinary technique have made her not only a superstar of American dance and an innovator in her field  but also an inspiration to African Americans  to women  and to people of all origins around the world. Last November  Doubleday published Dancing Spirit  this remarkable womans autobiography. Now  with Anchors paperback publication  an even wider audience can trace the steps of her career: her early years in Philadelphia  where she began studying dance at the age of six  her discovery by Agnes de Mille; years of frustration and struggle in a field that favored petite  fair  White women; her legendary collaboration with Alvin Ailey; her work on Broadway in the musical Sophisticated Ladies ; the formation of her own company  the Jamison Project  and her retum to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as artistic director after its founders death in 1989. Dancing Spirit contains vivid portraits of many artists Jamison has worked with including Agnes de Mille  Alvin Ailey  Jessye Norman  Geoffrey Holder  Carmen de Lavallade  and Mikhail Baryshnikov  to name only a few. And Jamison talks frankly about the price exacted by a dancers nomadic life--rootlessness  fleeting relationships  the obsession with physical beauty. Illustrated with sixty photographs  Dancing Spirit is a candid and immediate self-portrait of a unique American artist whose work has left an indelible mark on the world of dance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646984183861,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385425589","price":231.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385425582.jpg?v=1781684508","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dancing-spirit-9780385425582","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}