| Activity | US Dancer, choreographer, academic, Artistic Director of The Urban Bush Women. Holds a BA in dance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and an MFA in dance from Florida State University; founded Urban Bush Women in 1984; also created works for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet Arizona, Philadanco, University of Maryland, University of Florida, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company and others. Guest teacher and speaker at Mankato State University (1993-94), UCLA (1995-96), Ohio State University (1996), and the Abramowitz Memorial Lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998). She was named Alumna of the Year by the University of Missouri (1993) and Florida State University (1997). In June 2002, Zollar was awarded an honorary doctorate from Columbia College in Chicago. Awarded a 2006 New York Dance and Performance Award, A BESSIE, for her work as choreographer/creator of "Walking With Pearl . . . Southern Diaries," a dance inspired by African American choreographer, educator and social activist, Pearl Primus. |