Jovonna parks

Dancer

JoVonna Parks (she/her) (Brooklyn, NY) is a Philadelphia native where she began her intense formal training in Ballet, Horton and Graham techniques. She attended Ailey/Fordham and graduated with her BFA in dance in 2012. JoVonna performed with Elisa Monte Dance under the direction of both Elisa Monte and Tiffany Rea-Fisher from 2014-2019. She has also worked with Classical Theater of Harlem in their productions of Macbeth, The Three Musketeers, Antigone and A Christmas Carol.  She is currently a freelance dance artist with Clymove, Konverjdans, Ballet Vero Beach and South Dakota Ballet. Her creations have been performed at Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company: Solo Suites as well as the all female collaborative choreography festival CounterPointe.  She has appeared in Season 2 of HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness. 

JoVonna is a recipient of the NYFA City Corps Grant, the 2021/2022 UMEZ grant from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as choreographer in collaboration with Nite Bjuti and a microgrant from The Map Fund in its first microgrant initiative. JoVonna has also created two world premieres for Brooklyn Ballet and CLYMOVE 2024 spring seasons. She is an original member of Clymove since 2019, served as Founding Board Secretary 2021-2023, and is currently Clymove’s first commissioned Choreographer and Rehearsal Director.

Photo Credit: KASAI NYC
Pascal Sonnet Photographie (In Rehearsal)
Wade Watson (B&W Headshot)