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"Jaroslow, known for the tenderness and earthly strength of her movement style..."
- Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice
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Infinite Body blog
Risa Jaroslow: Body and Soul podcast
RESIST/SURRENDER:
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Village Voice
What Is Man?
Investigating gender stereotypes with precision instruments
by Deborah Jowitt
December 12th, 2006 7:01 PM
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It is...a holiday treat of sorts to see a piece in which serious issues are softened only by smart choreographic abstracting
and re-molding...They look almost as if they were in an operating room-as if stereotypical masculinity were something that
could be probed for, maybe excised-Whatever you think it means in terms of a message, the image burns itself into your brain,
into your gut.
WHOLE SKY:
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New York Times
Feeling Whole in a Response to Sept. 11
By Jennifer Dunning
November 12, 2004
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Exquisite, like a drop of air suspended in honey...Ms. Jaroslow's new "Whole Sky" creates an abstract community of
dreamers in a dance built on people's responses when the choreographer asked what made them feel whole.
Dance Magazine Online
Reviewed by Jim Dowling
December 2004
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In her reassuringly titled Whole Sky, Risa Jaroslow evokes a wish to heal a broken skyline - and
ourselves - suggesting that we can counter the world's dislocations by reaching out to those we've kept at a
distance...Jaroslow displays a gift for affirming more in others than one would think likely or possible, and
in the process, she shows how we can make ourselves whole.
STRINGS ATTACHED:
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The Village Voice
Pick Your Community
There's No Business Like Show Business
by Deborah Jowitt April 16, 2003
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Risa Jaroslow makes works about communities you can imagine living in. People who inhabit them dance together;
they also know when to leave one another alone and when to step in to help. They can be feisty or serene...Their
actions and physical dialogues are as fluent, variegated, and disciplined as the melodies we hear and the unseen
musicians they embody.
HOME/ WIRE WALKING:
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City Limits
Working it on Welfare
The welfare woe dance
By Hilary Russ
September/October 2001
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Lobbying comes in all forms, but with a pirouette? In the tumultuous world of welfare policy, one project is trying
to get its message to Albany in an unconventional way: with a song and dance.
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Village Voice
Communities Centered
In the Middle of the Road to Heaven, Maybe
by Deborah Jowitt
December 27, 2001
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Risa Jaroslow choreographs as if the most important thing in the world were how and why someone takes another's
hand or leans into another's embrace, as if her mission were to explore the common needs and visions
that bring people together.
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