. >> jude judy has been a trail blazer in dance for decades. >> the dancer is music, we're the notes come to life. i am judith jam ison. the dancers worth their weight issue you will see them in motion, life motion. your breath will be taken away, i was born in 1943, a very intense time. in philadelphia, artistically, spiritualy, emotion alley, racially. i was growing up with mother's day parade on new year's eve with people in black face, there i'm glad i grew up with all of those things color my career. people ask me, did you know you wanted to be a dancer. it was not wanting to be a dancer, it is something you needed to be, i needed to be a dancer, i didn't know that. it came to me, there are always people before you that just inch the door open a little bit more, you can get a foot. alvin gave that to us, we're living on his after burner. and it continues. >> there it is. >> i met him in 1965, he was at i failed that one, i was really bad. i had danced for 3 months, i was working at the world's fair. pushing buttons on the ride, as i was leaving the building. there was a man on t