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Article: The journey of Jawole.(Jawole Zollar, dance instructor at Florida State University)
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- Florida Trend
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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Got hips? Hair? Humor? Get wild-and wise with this gifted denizen of the dance world.
If a good story leaps off the page, does a good dance leap off the stage? Most definitely, if Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and her six Urban Bush Women are the leapers--who also spin, kick, shake, sing, shout and tell stories like the famous, rule-breaking dance troupe they are.
Art that gets off the stage and into everyday life is what Jawole Zollar set out to create more than 20 years ago. Her vision began taking shape when she was a graduate student in FSU's top-ranked dance department in the late '70s. In 1984, in the form of a company named Urban Bush Women, it took New ...