NEWS
Restaging Shelter on National TV!
Restaging Shelter is airing on PBS stations until 2015 in many of the
top U.S. markets including New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Dallas.
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Photo By Bruce Berryhill
This award-winning documentary directed by Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) dance professor Martha Curtis and film director Bruce Berryhill features Urban Bush Women’s work Shelter and the process of teaching it to VCU students.
*New Yorkers please ask WNET, your PBS station,
to air Restaging Shelter HERE
CLICK HERE for more info on VCU
PRESS
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2012
- “Accentuating the Improvisational” by Claudia La Rocco, February 2012 - The New York Times
- “Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham receives $100,000 for civil right arts, culture initiative” by Michael Huebner, May 2012 - The Birmingham News
- "Your City is a Cultural Center: A Review of the ‘Spacing Out’ Forum" by Natalia Radywyl, August 2012 - PPS.org
- "Dance performance in Hartsville promotes voting" by Ardie Arvidson, September 2012 - SCNOW.org
- "How To Dance To The Preamble Of The United States Constitution" by Jordan Levin, October 2012 - NPR
2011
- "DanceMotion USA 2010 Retrospective," June 2011 - BAM
- "Urban Bush Women: Caught in the Act," produced by Jonathan Lief and Irina Khokhlova, June 2011 - BRIC
- "Juneteenth and Slavery in Brooklyn," by Jonathan Mandell, June 2011 - Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Patch
- "Jawole Willa Jo Zollar Mines KC Memories in New Choreography," by Sylvia Maria Gross, May 2011 - KC Currents, KCUR
- "Diversity produces 'America: Now and Here' dance concept," by Libby Hanssen, May 2011 - The Kansas City Star
- "Sisters Standing Up to the Man," by Claudia La Rocco - April 2011 - The New York Times
- "An Active Anniversary," by Susan Reiter, April 2011 - NY Press
- "FSU dance professor Jawole Zollar 'the best of the best,'" by Doug Blackburn and Mark Hinson, April 2011 - Tallahassee.com
- "A Female Force: Five company leaders on how gender shapes their vision and style," by Victoria Looseleaf, March 2011 - Dance Magazine
- "Three questions with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar," by Lynn Peisner, January 2011 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- "25 years of dance with Urban Bush Women," by Andrew Alexander, January 2011 - Creative Loafing Atlanta
- "Coming to the Rialto: Urban Bush Women founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar refuses to stay put," by Daryl Foster, January 2011 - ArtsCriticATL
2010
"Modern-Dance History Times Five, With Plenty of Theatricality," by Roslyn Sulcas, December 2010 - The New York Times
"Five First Ladies of Dance' preview: Masters of movement team for celebratory tour," by Robert Johnson, December 2010 - Newark Star-Ledger
"REVIEW: Fly - Five First Ladies of Dance @ Oberlin 12/03/10," by Susan Schaul, December 2010 - Cool Cleveland
"U of M Dance students challenge stereotypes of 'black dance,'" by Sheila Regan, December 2010 - City Pages
"Dancing ladies take flight in performance at Oberlin College," by Donald Rosenberg, December 2010 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"FLY: Five First Ladies' hold a posture of maturity and grace," by Sarah Kaufman, November 2010 - The Washington Post
"Five First Ladies of Dance at the Kennedy Center Tonight," by Amanda Abrams, November 2010 - Washington City Paper
"Get to know 'Five First Ladies of Dance'," by Merilyn Jackson, October 2010 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Jawole Willa Jo Zollar explores early explorations into sensuality in new Urban Bush Women show," by Sheila Regan, October 2010 - by Sheila Regan Twin Cities Daily Planet
"'Uncensored' bares essence of women," by Caroline Palmer, October 2010 - StarTribune.com
"Everybody Dance," by John White, September 2010 - StoryCorps blog
"I am Urban Bush Women, hear me roar," by Melissa Wray, July 2010 - University of Minnesota Northrop blog
"On the money: TranscenDANCE youth arts project," by Janice Steingberg, July 2010 - The San Diego Union-Tribune
"Summer Arts review: Urban Bush Women," by Donald Munro, June 2010 - FresnoBeehive.com
"Dancing Through Tough Times," by Valerie Gladstone, June 2010 - TheRoot.com
"An 'Inspiration Lab' on South Oxford," by Tze Chun, May 2010 - New York Times, The Local
"So You Think It's African Dance," by Alastair MacCaulay, May 2010 - New York Times
"On Tour, U.S. Dancers Embrace Latin Rhythms," by Lauren Monson, May 2010 - America.gov
"It's Time to Bring Dance to the White House, and Obama Should Take the Lead," by Sarah Kaufman, April 2010- The Washington Post
"My Vision of Collaboration and Community," by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Spring 2010 - CSU Summer Arts Newsletter
"Soft Steps of Diplomacy," by Roslyn Sulcas, March 2010 - New York Times
"Danza afro-contemporánea este miércoles en el Adolfo Mejía," (in spanish) by Ajá Cartagena, March 2010 - urbanbushwomen.org
"Urban Bush Women," (in spanish), March 2010 - Estilio Baile
"Dark Magic: Urban Bush Women's Zollar: Uncensored," by Deborah Jowitt, February 2010 - The Village Voice
"Urban Bush Women: Celebrating 25 Years," by Selma Jackson, January 2010 - The Hill
"Urban Bush Women, Uncensored," by Evan, January 2010 - Dancing Perfectly Free
"Urban Bush Women, Moving Through a Defiant Past," by Claudia La Rocco, January 2010 - New York Times
"Urban Bush Women at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City," by Robert Johnson, January 2010 - Star Ledger
"Urban Bush Women rework classic pieces for 25th Anniversary," by Susan Reiter, January 2010 - New York Press
"Exporting Modern Dance," by Clare Croft, January 2010 - Dance Magazine
2009
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"Why I Dance," by Paloma McGregor, UBW Company Member, June 2009 - Dance Magazine"Phenomenal Women," by Michelle Vellucci, March 2009 - Dance Teacher Magazine
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