- Former dancer of Ballet Jooss in London.
- Met her first husband Patricio Bunster in Germany.
- Former dancer of National Ballet of Chile.
- Mother, with Patricio Bunster, of Manuela Bunster.
- Mother, with Víctor Jara, of Amanda Jara.
- Created Víctor Jara's Foundation.
- In 1947 entered the Sigurd Leeder School of Dance.
- She was dance coach at University of Chile.
- Already in the Andean country, she was a dance teacher and created the first Pedagogy degree in children's dance at the University of Chile.
- With the coup d'état of 1973, Joan began intense work as a defender of Human Rights in England.
- She was he widow of the Chilean singer Víctor Jara, murdered during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) who dedicated much of her life to the fight for human rights.
- She received in 2021 the National Prize for Performing and Audiovisual Arts of Chile.
- It was in 1999 when Joan Jara and her daughter asked that the Vïctor Jara case, which had been closed for two decades, be reactivated. It was after Pinochet's arrest in London.
- Joan Jara or Joan de Jara was a British-Chilean dancer, activist, and widow of Chilean icon, communist and folksinger Víctor Jara. After his death, she dedicated herself to perpetuating the memory of him, his work, and his values.
- She left Chile in 1973, changed her surname to Jara, and dedicated herself to perpetuating the memory of her husband, his works, and his values. She returned to Chile in 1984 to revive his memory.
- In 2013, Jara filed a civil lawsuit against a former military officer she charged as responsible for her husband's death, Pedro Barrientos, who has lived in Florida for about 20 years and became an American citizen through marriage. The lawsuit was filed under the Torture Victim Protection Act and the Alien Tort Statute, a federal law that lets American courts try foreign human rights disputes. Barrientos and six others were charged in Jara's murder in December 2012 based on a conscript's corroborated testimony.
- The artist, nationalized Chilean by grace, published a book titled Victor Jara. A truncated song (2001, Argos Vergara), a biography of the singer-songwriter and an autobiography of her and their 20 years together. She wrote it between 1980 and 1983 in London.
- She wrote An Unfinished Song: The Life of Victor Jara in 1984, and founded the Víctor Jara Foundation.
- During her first stage in Chile she created the "Ballet Popular" with a group of professional dancers from the Chilean National Ballet, its mission was to spread dance in rural populations of the country.
- Her husband was assassinated in the 1973 coup. He left the morning of the coup to defend the university and was corralled with others into the stadium, which became "a makeshift concentration camp". Jara sought assistance from the British embassy, which was closed. Jara identified his body in the Santiago morgue within a pile of corpses.
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