Denise Jefferson Dies At Age 65

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School Ailey is mourning the loss of director Dennis Jefferson, who passed away Saturday after a battle with cancer of the ovary. And was a member of the faculty of the Dance School famous since 1974 and became a director in 1984. In addition to direct dancers young countless, and helped create an innovative degree program with Fordham University.

Co-workers say she was a woman amazing spirit will live on in the school. “We miss her dearly, but we know what we are, we stand in the light of the Centre for Dance and we are smiling because they were part of this building,” said Artistic Director Judith Jamison, Ailey School.

Jefferson began studying ballet at the age of eight in her hometown of Chicago. She began her career one year after receiving a grant to the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance. Dennis Jefferson was 65 years old. Survived by her daughter, sister and mother. Are being planned for a memorial ceremony to a later date in the studio Eli.

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