He did, during this time, make pieces with students at Alfred University, the New School, and at the American Dance Festival. He concentrated on teaching, writing, and serving on the boards of several not-for-profit dance organizations: ( Headlong Dance Theater, Danspace Project, Movement Research, and Ashley Anderson Dances .) Then in 2009, after not making professional dance pieces for eight years, Houston-Jones made "The Myth and Trials of Calamity Jane and the Son of the Queen of the Amazons" in collaboration with Ashley Anderson and "This Ring of Fire" in collaboration with Daniel Safer both at Dance New Amsterdam, (DNA). Also in 2009 he was asked to revive three of his works from the 1980s: "What We’re Made Of" (1980), "DEAD" (1981), and "THEM" (1986). All three revivals were completed and performed in 2010. The re-imagined THEM has since toured to four cities in Europe and to Los Angeles. His most recent piece, "13 Love Songs: dot dot dot", a collaboration with Emily Wexler premiered in January 2014 at the American Realness Festival in New York and toured to the American Dance Festival in North Carolina. As an author Ishmael Houston-Jones' essays, fiction, interviews, and performance texts have been anthologized in the books: • "Dance, Documents of Contemporary Art", (White Chapel gallery, 2012); • "Conversations on Art and Performance", (Johns Hopkins, 1999);  • "Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page", (G+B Arts, 1998); • "Caught in the Act: A Look at Contemporary Multi-Media Performance", (Aperture, 1996); • "Aroused, A Collection of Erotic Writing", (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2001); • "Best Gay Erotica 2000", (Cleis Press, 2000);  • "Best American Gay Fiction, volume 2", (Little Brown, 1997); • and "Out of Character: Rants, Raves and Monologues from Today’s Top Performance Artists", (Bantam, 1996). • His articles have also been published in the magazines: Bomb (magazine), PAJ (journal)), Movement Research Performance Journal; Contact Quarterly; Real Time; Mirage, FARM; and others. He is a subject of the chapter "Speech as Act" in the book "Dances that Describe Themselves" by Susan Leigh Foster (Wesleyan University Press, 2002). and the chapter "Crossing the Great Divides" in the book "Taken by Surprise" by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere, (Wesleyan University Press, 2003).