Artists

Darrell Jones

Darrell has performed in the United States and abroad with a variety of choreographers and companies such as Bebe Miller, Urban Bush Women, Ronald K. Brown, Min Tanaka, Ralph Lemon and KOKUMA Dance Theater. Along with performing, Darrell continues to choreograph and teach. He has collaborated with other choreographers, writers, musicians and designers in dance films, documentations and interactive multimedia installations.

In addition to his collaborative work he continues to work in solo forms. His choreography has been presented at The Place Theater in London, Kwanju Biennale in South Korea, The Kennedy Center in Washington DC and Judson Memorial Church in New York City. Darrell has also taught workshops and master classes in dance technique and improvisational processes throughout the United States and in other countries such as South Africa, UK, and South Korea. His classes are informed by his training and studies in a variety of contemporary dance techniques and Traditional Dance forms.

He is full-time faculty at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago where he teaches dancemaking, improvisation, and modern technique.

Liz Burritt

Liz Burritt is an original member of the Joe Goode Performance Group established in 1986. She has been an instrumental collaborator in the making of over 30 original works, and has been featured in many pieces including The Ascension of Big Linda into the Skies of Montana, Disaster Series, Take Place, Maverick Strain, Deeply There, What the Body Knows and Stay Together. In 2000 she was awarded an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Individual Performance.

In addition to creating and performing with the Company, Liz teaches technique, voice, partnering and performance workshops for dancers and actors around the country. She is currently teaching at Columbia College in Chicago. She is expanding her work to include classes for actors and theatre companies, such as Fools' Fury Theater Company and The Shotgun Players in the San Francisco Bay Area. Liz has a growing interest in video and film and has appeared in a number of short films and one feature length film for which she earned SAG eligibility.