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About Risa Jaroslow

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photo credit: Anja Hitzenberger

"...exquisite, like a drop of air suspended in honey."        - Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

Jaroslow has been making and performing dances in New York City and across the country since 1974. Dance has been a part of her life since she was five, when she played the Queen in Murray Louis' The Frog Prince. Fifteen years later, she graduated from Bennington College, where she studied with Viola Farber, who had a profound influence on her.

Her Company, Risa Jaroslow & Dancers, is dedicated to merging performance and community work and to including diverse communities as participants and audience. The Company has performed at the major venues for new dance in New York City, including Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, The 92nd Street Y, the Joyce Theater and Central Park Summerstage. The Company has also performed and taught nationally and internationally.

Jaroslow has taught technique, composition, and repertory at colleges and universities including Adelphi University, Trinity College, Pratt Institute, University of Wisconsin, Bennington College, and Dartington College (England). She has conducted extended residencies with Kannon Dance in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the dance departments at University of Maryland and American University. From 1990 to 1999 she conducted a yearly residency in Bytom, Poland.

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