BK READER HIGHLIGHTS UBW’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Written By Urban Bush Women

Brooklyn Theatrical Company Celebrates 40 Years of Storytelling Through Dance

by Brianna Robles

Photo by Deborah Rodriguez for Miami Dade College

Meet the women who have been dancing to the beat of their own drum for the past four decades.

Urban Bush Women, a legendary Brooklyn-based dance organization led by Black women, has made its impact on the community through dance and community engagement. 

As a young person growing up during the Black arts movement during the mid-1960s and 1970s, choreographer and founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar hoped to showcase and represent the skill and beauty of creative Black voices and philosophies on the stage. 

Urban Bush Women

Founded in 1984 by choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women (UBW) seeks to bring the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance. We do this from a woman-centered perspective and as members of the African Diaspora community in order to create a more equitable balance of power in the dance world and beyond.

https://www.urbanbushwomen.org
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