About Darrell

Darrell Jones has performed in the United States and abroad with a variety of choreographers and dance companies such as Urban Bush Women, Ronald K. Brown and Min Tanaka.  He continues to have long-term collaborative relationships with Bebe Miller Company and Ralph Lemon. 

For the past ten years, his artistic research has found its central focus through a conversation between his postmodern training and the voguing aesthetic. Through years of experimenting and analyzing oppression as it lives in the body, Darrell seeks to excavate how individuals accumulate identity and mirror culture through movement.  

 He has taught workshops and master classes in dance technique and improvisational processes throughout the United States; SFDI (Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation), Bates Dance Festival, J.I.M.  (Joy in Movement), Movement Research Melt and Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, and in other countries such as South Africa, UK, Japan and South Korea.

 Darrell has received choreographic fellowships from MANCC (Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography), CDF (Chicago Dancemakers Forum) and has additionally been a recipient of the Wesleyan University Creative Campus Fellow (2017), MAP Fund (2017) Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and Foundation for Contemporary Artists (2019) and is a two-time Bessie Award recipient for his collaborative work with Bebe Miller Company (Landing Place) and his research into (e)feminized ritual performance (Hoo-Ha).

 Darrell is presently a tenured faculty member at The Dance Center of Columbia College in Chicago where he teaches classes in physical practice, performance and improvisational techniques.