PARTNER PROJECT/SCENE IN PUBLIC
Infinite Body Blog
"The Partner Project/Scene in Public is a dream of a dance, my idea of dance heaven, a seemingly bottomless cornucopia of good things... I did not want it to end."

PARTNER PROJECT/SCENE IN PUBLIC
Dance Magazine Blog
"Risa Jaroslow's Partner Project is all about relationship. Not the romantic kind, but that kinetic, flesh-to-flesh thing that happens between dancers moving"

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Village Voice Veteran Choreographers Bebe Miller and Risa Jaroslow Write Mysteries In Motion by Deborah Jowitt
November 18th, 2008
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From the moment that Gabriel Forestieri, Luke Gutgsell, Elise Knudson, and Paul Singh enter with sideways, spread-eagled leaps—their bodies flying parallel to the floor, then crashing down—we're ready to follow them anywhere…all of them dance magnificently—bold in their energy, tender with one another.http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-11-19/dance/veteran-choreographers-bebe-miller-and-risa-jaroslow-write-mysteries-in-motion/

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Infiinite Body Blog

One could not ask for more from art and performance than we are receiving from Risa Jaroslow & Dancers in Sixty

311:
Gotham Gazette
311 Gets Dance Therapy
July 7th, 2008
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At noon and 1:30 p.m. today uninitiated passersby might have been startled by the group of red and black-clad dancers jumping off the Municipal Building columns and silently strutting and sashaying in the outdoor lunch hangout at 1 Centre Street

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.