Joan Jonas is an American choreographer, born in 1936 in New York City.
Biography
Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, "a central figure in the performance art movement of the late 1960s". Jonas' projects and experiments were influential in the creation of video performance art as a medium. Her influences also extended to conceptual art, theatre, performance art and other visual media. She lives and works in New York and Nova Scotia, Canada.
Contemporaries
Anthony Shay
American dancer and choreographer
David Gordon
American choreographer (1936–2022)
Renaldo Benson
American musician (1936–2005)
Edward Villella
American ballet dancer (born 1936)
Trisha Brown
artist, dancer, and choreographer (1936-2017)
Brunilda Ruiz
Puerto Rican ballet dancer
Wakefield Poole
American pornographic film director (1936–2021)
Simone Forti
American dancer and choreographer (1935–2026)
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