Jawole zollar biography template

  • Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (born December 21, 1950) is an American dancer, teacher and choreographer of modern dance.
  • Jawole Zollar grew up in Kansas City, Missouri in a household where music was at the center of her family's life.
  • Choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, founded Urban Bush Women (UBW) in 1984.

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    𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭:
    𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝-𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲

    BIO

    Jawole Zollar is currently the Nancy Smith Fichter Professor of Dance at Florida State University. She received her B.A in dance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and later received her M.F.A. in dance from Florida State University. After moving to New York City to study with Dianne McIntyre from Sounds in Motion, Jawole founded the Urban Bush Women in 1984.

    The UBW was founded as a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring the use of cultural expression as a catalyst for social change. Along with creating works for UBW, Jawole has also created works for several dance companies such as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Philadanco, University Maryland, and along with many others.

    She has received several awards and honoraria such as the New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) in 2006, Robert O. Lawt

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    Sections 5, 6, 7, and 8: Creating Contemporary American Identities through Movement

    Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

    This section continues the theme of dancemakers who use their art to express their American identities and as a means of communicating about social and political issues. It introduces a third artist, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and her dances entitled Walking with Pearl. These are particularly appropriate pieces for discussion because ADD SPACE HERE Zollar choreographed them to honor the artistic legacy of Pearl Primus and to show how that legacy is connected to her own artistry. The first dance fryst vatten titled Africa Diaries (2004) and refers to the trips to Africa that Primus took, beginning in 1948, to conduct the anthropological research. The second dance is Southern Diaries (2005); it refers to the trip which Primus made during the summer of 1944 to live and work with poor migrant workers in the rural South. In Southern Diaries, Zollar incorporates reconstructions of

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    Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

    American dancer, teacher and choreographer (born 1950)

    Not to be confused with Zimbabwe's "zollar" (RTGS Dollar), currency.

    Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (born December 21, 1950) is an American dancer, teacher and choreographer of modern dance. She is the founder of the Urban Bush Women dance company.

    Biography

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    One of six children, she was born Willa Jo Zollar in Kansas City, Missouri, to parents Alfred Zollar Jr. and Dorothy Delores Zollar.[1] From age seven to seventeen, Zollar received her dance education from Joseph Stevenson, former student of Katherine Dunham.[2] Zollar also had early training in Afro-Cuban and other native dance forms which later helped to shape her teaching aesthetic.[3] She received a Bachelor of Arts in dance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and her Master of Fine Arts from Florida State University. She has been a professor at Florida State University's School of Dance since at l

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