Joan Jonas: Dancer in New York

About Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas is a New York–based artist whose work helped shape the language of video and performance art, drawing equally on dance, theater, and conceptual practice. Her projects often stage the body in conversation with cameras, props, and live sound, treating the image as an active partner rather than documentation. At venues like Danspace Project, she brings these hybrid methods into a performance context. Her work tends to favor structure and attention over spectacle.