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.
Zollar’s choreographic style is influenced by the dance traditions of black Americans—modern dance, African dance, and social dance. Her movement synthesizes influences from modern dance (a combination of Dunham, Graham, Cunningham, and Limón techniques), Afro-Cuban, Haitian, and Congolese dance. She emphasizes the use of weight and fluidity as opposed to creating clean shapes. From her Afro-Cuban dance training she employs a strong sense of dynamic timing, rhythmic patterns, and continuous flow of movement. She derives many of her movement ideas from African-American culture—allowing the “church testifying, emotional energy shap[e] the form, and the rawness of that form, like you have in jazz,” she says. – Wikipeda
| Credit Type | Production | Season |
|---|---|---|
| Choreographer | Nonsectarian Conversations with the Dead | 1985-86 Season |