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Urban Bush Women (UBW), founded in 1984 by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, is a Brooklyn, New York-based non-profit dance company and professional African-American women's dance company. The ensemble performs choreography by Zollar and several other choreographers, often with a focus on the experiences of women of African descent .
In 1980, Zollar moved to New York City, where she studied under Dianne McIntyre, artistic director for Sounds in Motion Dance Company. In 1984, she left the company and established her own, called the Urban Bush Women , which became the first major dance company consisting of all-female African-American dancers.
Tabor-Smith spent a decade as a dancer, then Associate Artistic Director with the internationally acclaimed Urban Bush Women dance company of New York City, where she was a part of developing the company's early community engagement methodologies.
Dance and comedy. You can enjoy award-winning dancing and acting with Urban Bush Women (Oct. 24 & 25), New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players in “H.M.S. Pinafore” (Jan. 29), Twyla Tharp Dance ...
After her graduation, Brown danced as professional dancer of Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence, A Dance Company from 2001 to 2007, and was a guest artist with Rennie Harris Puremovement and at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Between 2004 and 2005 she worked for two concert dance with Urban Bush Women.
As part of this designation, the work was reconstructed and re-staged at the Joyce Theater in 2007 by the dance company Urban Bush Women. Women in the Dunes (1995) Commissioned by the Japan Society, this piece explores points of comparison and contrast between the experiences of an African-American woman and a Japanese woman.
Ensemble Based. Chicago Dance Crash is an American physical theater and street dance company based in Chicago, Illinois. The company tours year round while sustaining a calendar year ‘season’ of local premiers and commercial work as well as a spring/fall educational outreach program. [1] The company has received widespread critical acclaim ...
Paul Taylor Dance Company is a modern dance company, formed by dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor (1930—2018). The modern dance company is based in New York, New York and was founded in 1954. Taylor originally performed in the companies of Merce Cunningham , Martha Graham , and George Balanchine , and founded his own in 1954.