“It’s the job of the Rockette to make it look easy…I immediately took to this challenge of being able to tell my body exactly where to be…the specificity of the challenge of being a Rockette…”
Danelle
“…as we came into the white institutions we were given a certain kind of armour, from being in our community with one another…we knew we were going to experience racism, we knew it, we were not surprised.”
Jawole
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Performance Artist
Growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar earned her B.A. in dance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and her M.F.A. in dance from Florida State University. In 1980 Jawole moved to New York City to study with Dianne McIntyre at Sounds in Motion, and in 1984 she founded Urban Bush Women (UBW) as a performance...
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Professional Dancer
Danelle Morgan, a Highland Park, New Jersey native, is the AssistantChoreographer and Dance Caption for the Radio City Rockettes. She hasperformed as a Rockette for over 14 years in the Christmas SpectacularStarring the Radio City Rockettes. Other productions include the New YorkSpring Spectacular, choreographed by Tony Award winner,...
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