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Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
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==
One of six children, she was born Willa Jo Zollar in Kansas City, Missouri, to parents Alfred Zollar Jr. and Dorothy Delores Zollar.〔(Great Performances: Free To Dance - Biographies - Jawole Willa Jo Zollar )〕 From age seven to seventeen, Zollar received her dance education from Joseph Stevenson, former student of Katherine Dunham.〔Hussie-Taylor, J. "Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo", ''International Dictionary of Modern Dance''. Detroit: St. James Press, 1998, 852.〕 Zollar also had early training in Afro-Cuban and other native dance forms which later helped to shape her teaching aesthetic.〔White-Dixon, Melanye. "Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo", ''International Encyclopedia of Dance''. 6th ed. 6 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1998, 448.〕 After high school graduation she went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in dance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and from there also received her Master of Fine Arts from Florida State University, where she is currently a tenured dance professor.〔(Mission and History )〕
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.〔
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