"Jamison, seen here in ""Revelations,"" first saw Ailey perform in 1963 while she was a student in Philadelphia. There were only eight members in the dance company back then. ""He wanted to have the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater be a magnet for everyone to come and study dance and have a residence, and it just happened to be that under my watch that we actually got a building to house that light,"" Jamison said."