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Take classes in contemporary dance, Zollar technique, conditioning, movement from the African Diaspora, text, narrative and storytelling, movement and vocal improvisation and process, partnering, and UBW repertory.
Learn the tools for repertory to achieve both the physical and emotional dancer - a dancer for a new society.
Practice conditioning, release technique, Zollar technique, and contact and repertory work that is political and socially engaging.

This course is designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in studying dance and repertory with Jawole Zollar/Urban Bush Women, one of the most visionary, and internationally claimed choreographers of New York City contemporary modern dance. The work is physical, challenging... It is also political and emotionally engaging. Get excited!

how to apply

Submit a brief resume and also include a personal statement about your interest in dance that addresses social and/or personal engagement.
Send the materials listed in Step One and your completed Registration Form to the Summer Arts Registration Office by Monday, May 19, 2008.

Professor Gayle Fekete
Cal Poly Pomona
gmfekete@csupomona.edu
909-869-2790

course number and credits

Undergraduate: DANCE 427, 3 units
Graduate: DANCE 627, 3 units

materials fee

none

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Award-winning Founding Artistic Director of Urban Bush Women. In addition to repertory for UBW, she has created works for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet Arizona, Philadanco, University of Maryland, University of Florida, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, and others. (www.urbanbushwomen.org)

Company Members of Urban Bush Women NYC

Urban Bush Women Core Values:

Validating the Individual
Catalyst For Social Change
Building Trust Through Process
Entering Community and Co-creating Stories
Celebrating the Movement and Culture of the African Diaspora
Place Matters

"For the twenty years the Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's Urban Bush Women have been pulling spectators ... they've taught us about empowerment. Empowerment as women, as African Americans, as humans."
        Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice (June 27, 2005)

"...each step forward, each link in the chain, brings the world closer to the lively, communal, and compassionate space the [Urban Bush Women's] choreographer, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, imagines in her dances."
        Debra Cash, wburg.org Boston's NPR Nesw Source

"Those Urban Bush Women! I forget sometimes how strong they are, how fierce, how smart. Their expressive powers shake the theater."
        Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice (April 19, 2006)

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