DARVEJON A. JONES, MFA
Phase 2: a good grimace (2026, work in progress)
Choreographed and Performed by Darvejon A Jones
Music: Palms Down, Daya Joyce-Marie Jones, Darvejon A. Jones and Daya Joyce-Marie Jones, JLM, Violeta Garcia
Curated in RawDance's CONCEPT series at Art House in Jersey City, NJ, June 4, 2026. Documentation provided by Zoltan's Photography.
*** This is a work in progress being built around an improvisational score.
This work seeks to posit dance as a vital form of narrative journalism. On February 28, 2026, my child was born with neonatal asphyxia. When she finally started breathing, the midwife declared, "Ah! She is displaying a good grimace..." On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel bombed Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary school, killing 150 school-aged girls. These incidents are connected. This solo seeks to understand this connection.
Phase 2: a good grimace (2026, work in progress)
Choreographed and Performed by Darvejon A Jones
Music: Palms Down, Daya Joyce-Marie Jones, Darvejon A. Jones and Daya Joyce-Marie Jones, JLM, Violeta Garcia
Curated in RawDance's CONCEPT series at Senate Garage in Kingston, NY, June 26th & 27th 2026. Documentation provided by Hudson Valley Visuals.
...and in the spring, the wildflowers will bloom (2025)
Hunter College Dance Department
Choreography: Darvejon A. Jones
In Collaboration with Dancers: Marvin Drummond, Julianne Lao, Zion Lawrence, Quincy Paul, Del Porter,
Abby Quito, Morgan Sands, Neidjhy Senatus, Kathy Xia, asmara
Music: Alfa Mist & Amika Quartet, Elijah Fox, Christian Prommer's Drumlesson
Costume Design: Sonya Molansky
Lighting Design: Angela Lianzo
The Breath of Life: Portia Wells
Hunter College Dance Department Fall 2025 Show at The Kaye Playhouse
What is this space? The space in between here and way over there? It is desolate, incomplete.
And I arrive, awake and trying to press forward. Through, not around. Causing a rupture of sorts. My heart is there too. The feeling part. The thing that seeks to understand, pumps the life force, and keeps the rhythm. And somehow, still, dusk is on the horizon.
What’s holding me in this moment?
…I think it’s madness. This world is a devastating place. And still the wildflowers seem to bloom in the spring. The cicadas yell wildly at us. And the rain falls...That has to be a kind of madness…A kind of insanity: Repeating the same actions, knowing nothing will change…Nihilism? Afropessimism? Death? I don’t know. What I do know is that life is inevitable. And we will not be the last beings to walk this earth. Nature always finds a way to right itself.
Phase 1: in action of fate (2025)
Choreography and Direction by Darvejon A. Jones
Performed by Darvejon A. Jones, ArVejon Jones, Sara Parker,
Jenelle Gaerlan, and Imani Gaudin
Curation: Pioneers Go East Collective, Crossroads 2025
Location: Socrates Sculpture Park
June 7th, 2025, 6pm
The depicted is a draft of a multiphase work, including a film, that will premiere in 2026.
Thank you to the performers, Pioneers Go East Collective, Hunter College Dance Department Administrative team, The Office of the Provost at Hunter College, Dione Poe of LoveJoy Reclaimed Fashion Boutique, and Jamie Ray Wright, studio manager of Alonzo King LINES Ballet, for your unwavering support!
*This iteration of this work was made possible by the generous support from the Office of the Provost at Hunter College, which is part of the City University of New York*
a n t a r e s : an abstracted buzzard lope (2024)
Choreographer: Darvejon A. Jones
Performers: Abigail Steinke, Cherilene Guzman, Empress Peebles
Venue: The Club at La MaMa Experimental Theatre, NYC
Music: Traditional Black American Spiritual, United States National Anthems, Cecile McLorin Salvant
A Dance of Derision Toward Liberation (2024)
Topics in Jazz, Spring 2024 (DAN 43156- 01)
Faculty of Record & Choreographer: Darvejon A. Jones
Hunter College, City University of New York
Susurrations (2023)
Estrogenius Festival March 30 & April 1, 2023
Choreography: Darvejon A. Jones
Dancing: Maiya Redding, Thomas Ford, Taylor Simpson
Costume Design: Darvejon Jones
Projection Design: Jenelle Gaerlan
Venue: Kraine Theater, NYC
Apricity (2023)
Choreography: Darvejon A. Jones
Commissioned by BodyVox Dance Inc. January 2023
Portland, Oregon
Blacklash (2022)
Hunter College MFA Thesis Project
Created by Darvejon A. Jones
Performed by Darvejon A. Jones, Thomas Ford, Eleanor Smith, Cherilene Guzman, Michael Peterson, and Maiya Redding
Projection by Jenelle Gaerlan
Costumes by Emily Taradash
Lighting by Jeffery Harris
Venue: The Kaye Playhouse, NYC
Blood Memory (2022)
Choreography: Darvejon A. Jones
Venue: Hunter College's Kaye Playhouse
Dancers: Maiya Redding, Leslie Ramsey, Taylor Simpson, Aieyla Santella, Julieta Rodriguez-Cruz, Joy Fekete, Elizabeth Vielot, Aja Belcher Velez, Eto’o Tsana, Katherine Stephen
Lighting Design: Burke Brown
Costume Design: Darvejon Jones & Eto’o Tsana
Music: Ledo Mashile, Bendik Giske, Mayowa Adeyemo, Fernando Meza, Mike Steva
Mixing: Darvejon Jones
Y'all Do Know What Gravity Is, Right?! (2020)
Choreography: Darvejon A. Jones
Danced by Jenelle Gaerlan
Music by Josh Wink
Projection design by Jenelle Gaerlan
Lighting Design by Mako Barmon
MODERNA (2020)
Choreography: Darvejon A. Jones
Danced by Darvejon Jones Dance Ensemble at BodyVox Dance Center Music by Christian Scott
Lighting Design by Mako Barmon