- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 42 min., 1 sec.)) : sound, color.
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Doris Jones
- Doris Jones
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1000518666
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Doris Jones.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
014201
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2003 July 25.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Artistic Director Dance Instructor.
- Added Author
Jones, Doris, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.