Darrell Jones
Performer, Choreographer, Collaborator, Teaching-Artist | 2024 Platform Award Recipient
Darrell Jones is a performer, educator, researcher, and choreographer. He has performed extensively across the United States and globally, in all kinds of venues, including Links Hall in Chicago, Danspace Project, Dance Box – Kobe, Japan, and the Venice Biennale. He maintains long-term collaborative relationships with Bebe Miller Company and Ralph Lemon. Additional foundational experiences have included working with Min Tanaka, Ronald K. Brown, Kokuma Dance Theatre (Birmingham, UK), and Urban Bush Women.
Jones is a two-time Bessie Award recipient and has received grants and awards including the 3Arts Award, Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the MAP Fund. For the 2016-17 academic year he was the Creative Campus Fellow in Dance at Wesleyan University. He also has an ongoing relationship with the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) and was the Florida State Alumnus Fellow for 2020-2021.
As a highly collaborative generative artist, Jones has sought out partnerships with other choreographers (Paige Cunningham, Lisa Gonzales, Damon Green, Angie Hauser, J’Sun Howard, Kirstie Simpson, Jeremy Wade), writers (Cheryl Boyce-Taylor), musicians (Jesse Mano, Brian Schuler, Justin Mitchell) and designers (Mahwish Syed) in dance films, documentations, and interactive multimedia installations.
He is a tenured faculty member at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago where he teaches classes in physical practice, performance, and improvisational techniques. He holds an MFA in Dance from Florida State University.
