Instagram sensation Donté Colley, modern dance legends Liz Lerman and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and lifelong powwow dancer Rose Bear Don’t Walk each interpret this time of social distancing through one minute of dance. Their work gives movement to distance, to stillness - and to hope.
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DONTÉ COLLEY is a Toronto-based dancer and content creator. Through his playful, sincere videos he makes hundreds of thousands of followers smile. More at / donte.colley .
JAWOLE WILLA JO ZOLLAR is the founding artistic director of Urban Bush Women, a performance ensemble based in Brooklyn. She is currently the Nancy Smith Fichter Professor of Dance and Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor at Florida State University. More at www.urbanbushw...
LIZ LERMAN is a choreographer, performer, writer, speaker, and an institute professor at Arizona State University. In her 40 years of contributions to dance, she has received honors including a 2002 MacArthur Genius Grant and a 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. More at lizlerman.com/
ROSE BEAR DON’T WALK has been powwow dancing all her life. A member of the Bitterroot Salish and Crow tribes of Montana, Rose lives on the Flathead Indian Reservation, where she currently works as an ethnobotanist. In 2019, she received a Fellowship for the Future from 500 Women Scientists to further her study of traditional Salish food plants. More at / rosedontwalk
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