She is Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, and a régisseur for the Martha Graham Resource Center.  

She received her MFA summa cum laude from Florida State University and her BFA from Marymount Manhattan College. Most notably, she danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company (2001-2006), the Metropolitan Opera Ballet (1998- 2003) and performed in the US National Tour of The King and I as a principal dancer (2005).  In 2011-2012, Jones created a new work, Autumn Sunrise, for North Carolina Dance Theater II. 

She has presented her work at North Carolina Dance Festival Tour, North Carolina Dance Alliance, Center Stage (Santa Barbara, CA), Baryshnikov Arts Center (NYC), Swing Space (NYC), Pietrasanta International Dance Festival (Pietrasanta, Italy), and Drachengasse Theater (Vienna, Austria).  

Jones received a 2010-2011 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) American Masterpieces Grant to restage Martha Graham’s Primitive Mysteries (1931) for UNC Charlotte.  Most recently, Jones reconstructed Martha Graham’s Imperial Gesture (1935). The work received its premiere in January 2013 at the Knight Theater in Charlotte, presented by the College of Arts + Architecture.  Imperial Gesture had its NYC premiere at the Joyce Theater in February 2013 and is now on tour with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Jones was named the 2013 recipient of the Board of Governors' Teaching Award for the College of Arts + Architecture.

Kim Jones ha collaborato con Matilde e Arké per la realizzazione del progetto "Baroque to modern"grazie al quale allievi di Università Americane vengono ospitati in Italia.

Un'importante sinergia con Kim Jones ha prodotto la rappresentazione della ricostruzione di "Steps in the streets" di Marta Graham.

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