Performance
Photo: The Jones Twins as Spacewoman and Earthwoman in Martha Cinader’s poetry play, “Mission of Love” presented at Club Vinyl.
“Brilliant craft and penetrating insight inform their work. The Jones Twins can really sing, they can really move, their comic timing is uncanny and they are extraordinarily sexy. They are the ultimate sister act.”
Writing and performing as The Jones Twins, we created an afro-futuristic performance soup comprised of music, comedy, movement, interactivity, twin clichés, sexual come-ons and, wigs! We called our style Bebop Muzak, because we used music styles from abstract jazz to square 4:4 beats to express the schism we felt growing up Black, but not seen as Black, in America.
From this was born an autobiographical performance piece “The Jones Twins Do Bebop Muzak”. The show was presented at The New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre, Aaron Davis Hall, Dixon Place, and Smithsonian Institute’s National African American Museum Project.
We also performed at venues including Dixon Place, The Kitchen, The Knitting Factory, PS 122, CreativeTime, Franklin Furnace, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Central Park Summerstage, Lincoln Center, and LA’s Largo often collaborating with amazing performers, musicians, writers, and poets.
