Paris Jones began her dance training with the City Dance Theatre in Richmond, Va. She continued studying at Appomattox Regional Governor’s School and the School of Richmond Ballet. She graduated Suma Cum Laude from Howard University where she obtained her BFA in Dance, and continued on to complete The Ailey School’s Independent Study program. Paris has attended summer programs with Bates Dance Festival, Hubbard Street Dance Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Wade Dance in Florence, Italy. She has performed with Francesca Harper Dance Project, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, Danse4nia/Pheonix Danse, Bill T Jones’s Deep Blue Sea and Forces of Nature Dance Theatre. When she is not performing, Paris works with children as a dance educator and pediatric exercise physiologist.