Identity is an intensely conflicted issue for marginalized communities in a society ridden with hegemony and exclusions. It is all the more so for Zollar, who is continuously aware of the chasm between the sociocultural expectations that impinge upon her as an African-American woman and the particular location she claims for herself. Her engagement with identity--a theme in all of her work--emerges from an experienced awareness of the complex problematic attendant upon it.

Through the thematic and idiomatic fabric of her choreography, Zollar--who has described her work as drawing on traditions within the African diaspora--portrays characters who, even as they live in the margins of society and speak from within the interstices of the dense fabric of American life, recall their cultural heritages from distant lands and remind us of their historic legacies of survival.