Jawole Will Jo Zollar
Solo Voyages
Photo by Michael Bishop.
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Floor 3, Theater
Friday, January 17 at 4 pm, 7 pm
Saturday, January 18 at 1 pm*, 4 pm
Sunday, January 19 at 1 pm, 4 pm
*Audio description will be available for this performance
Presented as part of Edges of Ailey, Solo Voyages is a new work in development that experiments with the form and structure of monologues, characters, scenes, and imaginings from the past forty years of Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s work with Urban Bush Women. It is directed by Niegel Smith and performed by Zollar.
Choreographer: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Director: Niegel Smith
Project Manager: Cheri Stokes
Assistant to Choreographer: Veronica Jiao
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar earned her BA in dance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and MFA in dance from Florida State University. In 1984 Zollar founded Urban Bush Women (UBW) as a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring the use of cultural expression as a catalyst for social change. She serves as director of UBW’s Summer Leadership Institute and is the Nancy Smith Fichter Professor of Dance and Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.
Zollar has received fellowships from United States Artists (2008), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2009), and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2021). She received the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and honorary degrees from Columbia College Chicago, Tufts University, Rutgers University, and Muhlenberg College. Zollar has received numerous awards, including the Dance Magazine Award (2015), the Dance/USA Honor Award (2016), the Bessie Lifetime Achievement in Dance Award (2017), the DanceTeacher Award of Distinction (2021), the APAP Honors Award of Merit (2021), and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2021). In 2020, the Ford Foundation named Urban Bush Women one of America’s Cultural Treasures. Zollar is the 2024 recipient of the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement in choreography.
Solo Voyages was commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of Edges of Ailey.