Amari Jones
Amari Jones (Raleigh, NC) is a spring 2022 graduate from Duke University with a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis. Her research topically encompassed racial identity formation and the roles that our public k-12 educational system plays in informing this process. Her research resulted in the creation of a liberatory pedagogical intervention that uses dance as a space of investigation of Black girls’ embodied knowledge through the practice of verbally prompted “improvisational” sites called “Embodied Resonance”. Amari also has received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance Studies and a minor in Entrepreneurship from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Amari has performed in repertory works choreographed by Mari Meade (2017),The Clarice Young Dance Project (2018, 2019), Kristin Taylor Duncan (2022) and Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company -under the artistic direction of Andrea Woods Valdez (2021). Amari presented twice (2017, 2019) for the Conference on African- American & African Diasporic Cultures and Experience and in the spring of 2019, she presented the culmination of her research on the performance of the Duboisian concept of double consciousness, in a dance film entitled “In One Dark Body'', at the Thomas Undergraduate Research and Creativity Expo. She also co-presented and facilitated a workshop with Juliet Irving entitled “Resonating our Tenderness” at the Collegium for African American Dance in the spring of 2022 and 2024.
