December 21: Today in Dance

Born Today: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

Dancer/choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (1950-) is the founder of Urban Bush Women (1984), a dance/theatre collective celebrating black female voices and experiences. Zollar studied Afro-Cuban dance as a youth and graduated from Florida State University with an MFA in Dance and her movement style is steeped in the combination of modern dance, African dance, and social dance…