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San Francisco State University

BA in Dance

Performance & Choreography

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Academic Awards

 

“Excellence In Performance” (2013)

 

Robert Moses Kin Summer Intensive Scholarship Recipient 

 

Norinna Miller Scholarship Recipient 

 

SFSU Junior Potential Award

 

SFSU Dance Summer Study Scholarship 

 

SFSU Dean’s List 

ABOUT

ArVejon Jones is from Compton, CA. He attended San Francisco State University, where he majored in Dance and minored in Japanese. ArVejon has studied rigorously in many dance forms, including Tap, Hip Hop, West African, Ballet, Jazz, Haitian Folklore, some Afro-Cuban Folklore, Afro-Brazilian Folklore, and various Contemporary dance techniques (Horton, Limon, Release, Graham). He has danced all over the US, Canada and studied in Brazil. In the Bay Area, he has been a student apprentice with ODC Dance SF and has worked professionally as a freelance artist with Copious Dance Theater, PUSH Dance, SOULSKIN Dance, and Sean Dorsey Dance, among others. He has been a featured Dancer in the San Francisco Dance Film Festival (2014) and has recently been Nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Performance- Ensemble” for his work in 2017. In Boston, he performed throughout the Northeast with Prometheus Dance and Jean Appolon Expressions in addition to being contracted for 2 years as a Lead Teaching Artist for the Boston Ballet’s “Education and Outreach Initiative.” Currently, Jones is a dancer with Garrett + Moulton Productions.

Experience

Performance

2007 - present

 

 

 

Garrett+Moulton Productions (2021-current)

  • “Roll Out” Fall 2021

  • “Threnody” bay area premier/ 20th Anniversary Home Season

RAW Dance SF (2021-Current)

  • Salesforce Park (2021)

  • ChoreoFest (2022)

  • “Step/Song/Story (2022)

Kambara+ - (2022-current)

Sean Dorsey Dance (San Francisco 2015- Jan 2020)

  • 20 city tour (The Missing Generation)

  • 20 city tour (Boys in Trouble)

  • Bates Dance Festival (2015/ 2018)

  • Joyce Theater New York Summer 2018 (First ever Pride Programming)

  • Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm, Sweden (2018)

  • American Dance Festival (2018)

  • New York Live Arts (2020)

Oakland Ballet

  • “Nutcracker” 2022

Robert Moses Kin (San Francisco Project based, 2014-2022)

  • San Francisco International Dance Film Festival “AM/FM” (San Francisco 2014)- Featured Dancer

  • International Association of Blacks in Dance (Ohio Tour 2019)

  • 25th Anniversary Home Season at Yerba Buena

  • Spring 2022 Home Season

ODC Dance SF 

  • Velveteen Rabbit (San Francisco 2012-2014, 2018, 2019, 2021,2022)

  • ODC Dance SF Student Apprentice (San Francisco 2013)

  • ODC Dance SF Arkansas Tour (Arkansas 2013)

Prometheus Dance (Boston 2016-2017)

  • Limon based contemporary dance

Jean Appolon Expressions (Contemporary Haitian Dance)(Boston 2016)

SOULSKIN Dance (San Francisco 2014-2015, 2019-2021)

Copious Dance Theater (San Francisco 2012-2015)

PUSH Dance Company (San Francisco 2013-2015)

  • PUSH Museum of the African Diaspora Installation (San Francisco 2014)

  • PUSH Dance Company Atlanta Tour (Atlanta 2014)

Japantown San Francisco 110th Anniversary Featured Performer (San Francisco 2015)

Make a Wish Foundation Performer (Los Angeles 2007)(Tap)

Teaching

2013 - present

 

 

Lecturer of Dance | San Francisco State University (SF, 2019 - present)

  • Modern I, II, III, IV

  • Jazz I, II, III

Alonzo King LINES Ballet (SF, 2018 - present)

  • AfroContemporary

  •  Intermediate/Advanced Jazz Technique

Heat Dance Line (Oakland 2018 - 2022)

  • Competitive Jazz

  • Contemporary Techniques

  • Horton Technique 

Dance Mission SF (SF, 2017 - 2018)

  • Beginning Jazz teacher 

BodyVox (PDX, 2017)

  • Junior Artist Generator (JAG)  Modern Instructor

  • Jazz instructor

Boston Ballet (2015-2017)

  • Lead Teaching Artist (Educational and Outreach Program

    • Teaching, lesson planning, and recruitment for Boston Ballet School

African American Arts and Culture Complex (SF, 2013-2014)

  • Hip Hop Instructor

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