Jones-Haywood School of Ballet

The Jones-Haywood School of Ballet, now known as The Jones-Haywood Dance School, was founded in 1941 by Doris W. Jones and Claire Haywood in Washington D.C. to teach young dancers of color classical ballet.[1]

Its students have gone on to dance with Alvin Ailey , Philadanco, Dutch National Ballet, The Washington Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance Company, on Broadway, and also become choreographers, actors and dance educators.[2] Famous alumni include Chita Rivera, Hinton Battle, Sylvester Campbell, Louis Johnson and Sandra Fortune-Green.[3][4]

Jones and Haywood also founded the Capitol Ballet Company, a racially integrated professional ballet troupe that operated from 1961 to 1989. The school was also home to the Jones-Haywood Dancers.[5]

Haywood died in 1978 and Jones died in 2006. The school is now directed by Sandra Fortune-Green.[6]

References
  1. "Doris Jones | The HistoryMakers". www.thehistorymakers.com. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  2. "Jones Haywood Dance School". www.joneshaywood.com. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  3. "Doris Jones | The HistoryMakers". www.thehistorymakers.com. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  4. Kaufman, Sarah L. (2016-03-15). "How Chita Rivera keeps dancing at 83, with 16 screws in her leg". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  5. "Doris Jones | The HistoryMakers". www.thehistorymakers.com. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  6. "Jones Haywood Dance School". www.joneshaywood.com. Retrieved 2016-03-16.

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