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...Evie F. Jamison, a bus driver for G&W Tours, says that her tours stop at Harvard for about one hour of a one-day tour, with tourists spending about 30 minutes on a tour and 30 minutes shopping in the Square...
...They love Harvard; they keep asking, 'Are we near Harvard Square?'" Jamison says. "They always want to see MIT and Harvard, but when we get to MIT they just want to drive...
...Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and 28 members of her internationally acclaimed troupe began an emotional 15-day tour of South Africa last week. In Johannesburg, Pretoria and the sprawling black township of Soweto, the troupe presented hands-on workshops and dazzling stage performances of Ailey classics, including Night Creature, Vespers and Revelations. Enthusiastic audiences clapped, whooped and sometimes danced in the aisles...
...trip has been Jamison's dream ever since Nelson Mandela's release from Victor Verster Prison Farm in 1990 signaled the beginning of the end of apartheid. "I feel like I'm coming home," said the majestic 54-year-old former dancer who took over the company following Ailey's death in 1989. "This is my homeland, my lineage. South Africans are not the same as African Americans, but we greet each other as brothers and sisters because we've both been through turmoil and we understand that. We have so much to learn from them, and they have...
...turning Jamison's dream into reality fell to the company's executive director, Sharon Luckman, who had to find $300,000 to cover the cost of the trip. Initial overtures to potential American underwriters got nowhere. Nor were funds forthcoming in South Africa, because, says Luckman, it is deemed "politically incorrect to raise money for foreigners to come here when so little was going to local arts groups." The project was about to be abandoned when the J.P. Morgan Bank, based in New York City, agreed to sponsor the tour to showcase its start-up this year of a Johannesburg...