presence of whites. List of works 1984 River Songs; Life Dance…The Fool's Journey 1985 Working for Free 1986 Anarchy, Wild Women and Dinah; Girlfriends; Madness; LifeDance I…The Magician (The Return of She) 1987 Bitter Tongue 1988 Heat; Lipstick; Shelter; LifeDance II…The Papess 1989 I Don’t Know, But I Been Told, If You Keep on Dancin’ You Never Grow Old 1990 Praise House 1992 LifeDance III 1994 Nyabinghi Dreamtime; Vocal Attack 1995 Batty Moves; BONES AND ASH: A Gilda Story 1996 Transitions 1997 Self Portrait 1998 Hand's Singing Song 2000 Soul Deep 2001 HairStories 2002 Shadow's Child 2004 Walking with Pearl- Africa Diaries 2005 Walking with Pearl…Southern Diaries 2011 visible 2012 Blood Muscle Bone 2014 Hep Hep Sweet Sweet 2014 Walking with 'Trane, Chapter 2 Awards New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship (1984) National Endowment for the Arts choreography fellowships (1988–90) New York Dance and Performance Award (1992) Worlds of Thought Resident Scholar, Makato State University (1993–94) Capezio Foundation Dance Award (1994) Who's Who in America (1995) Regent Lecturer, Department of World Arts and Culture, University of California (1995–96) Bessie Award for Walking With Pearl…Southern Diarie (2006) Dance Magazine Award (2015) MacArthur Fellowship (2021) 2022: The Lillian and Dorothy Gish Prize References External links Profile at Urban Bush Women Faculty profile at Florida State University Biography at Free to Dance, PBS Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in Conversation with Ananya Chatterjea, October 21, 2010 at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota. 1950 births Living people Artists from Kansas City, Missouri American female dancers Dancers from Missouri American choreographers Florida State University faculty Bessie Award winners Modern dancers American women academics 21st-century American women