The HistoryMakers video oral history with Doris Jones.
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Imprint: | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016] |
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Description: | 1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 42 min., 1 sec.)) : sound, color. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Video Streaming Video |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11317914 |
Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Doris Jones Doris Jones |
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Other authors / contributors: | Jones, Doris, interviewee. Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. Stearns, Scott, director of photography. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
Sound characteristics: | digital |
Digital file characteristics: | video file |
Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns. Larry Crowe, interviewer. Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2003 July 25. Vendor-supplied metadata. |
Summary: | Artistic director and dancer Doris Jones was born on June 3, 1913 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a longtime resident of Washington, D.C. and one of the foremost educators of ballet dancers in the country. Jones and her friend Claire Haywood founded the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet in 1941, to provide opportunities for young African Americans to learn classical dance. In 1961, Jones and Haywood founded the Capitol Ballet Company to provide a venue for African American dancers, where Jones would go on to serve as artistic director until 1982. In 1980, Jones established the Jones-Haywood Youth Dancers to provide opportunities for young dancers. Jones trained a number of world-renowned dancers, including Chita Rivera, Sylvester Campbell and Sandra Fortune-Green. She was the recipient of numerous awards. She choreographed for the Washington Opera Society and the Washington Civic Opera. Jones passed away on March 21, 2006 at age 92. |
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