Since graduating with a B.F.A. in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University (2008) and B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Richmond (1994), Kevin LaMarr Jones has become a graphic designer, dancer, choreographer, and producer based in Richmond, Virginia.

Jones’ dance portfolio includes work as a companymember with the Latin Ballet of Virginia, as well as the founding Artistic Director of CLAVES UNIDOSdance community. His choreographic, teaching, and performance work centers around what he has coined, African Roots Reunion™, a blending of various dance genres with African influences, as well as, ‘Menco Reunion™, an approach to embracing Flamenco from an African Dance perspective.

Kevin began cultivating embodied dance knowledge at his parents' long-standing night club, Meljo's Restaurant in Freeman, Virginia, where he would create dances inspired by Soul Train broadcasts, music videos, and the birth of Hip Hop. He credits this opportunity, to explore movement independently from a young age, as the foundation for his creative aesthetic and his anti-biased approach to dance.

Jones studied West African dance with Sister Faye Walker and Judy Lynn Edwards. He stirred his passion for flamenco through teachers such as Ana Ines King, Anna Menendez, Antonio Hidalgo Paz, Miguel Vargas and other renowned flamenco artists through travels to New York, Washington DC, Jerez de la Frontera, Madrid and Seville. He has studied Afro Cuban dances with Ifé Michelle Milligan (Orisha), Alberto Limonta Perez (Rumba) and other leading

instructors in workshops between Miami, Washington, D.C., New York, and Barcelona. He has studied salsa and partner dancing with artists including Edwin Roa, Steve Greene, Boris Karabashev, and Yamil Boo. He performs regularly with Semilla Cultural, a Puerto Rican Bomba cultural ensemble. He is also a founding member of Black Flamenco Network, a global collective of Black and African-descended flamenco practitioners and aficionados.

One of his goals as an artist is to demonstrate that the African Dance continuum is accessible, diverse, rich, contemporary, and ever-evolving.