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About Risa Jaroslow

The Company

photo credit: Anja Hitzenberger

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

In 1988, Jaroslow created Arts at University Settlement, a neighborhood arts program serving New York City's Lower East Side and the downtown dance community. Jaroslow ran the program until 1999, raising funds to renovate Speyer Hall for rehearsals, classes and performances for the Lower East Side and other communities. The program and theater space she created continue to serve as a resource for the neighborhood and for downtown dance artists

Using the distinctive series of teaching techniques she has developed, Jaroslow engages dancers of all levels and people of all ages and abilities. She has worked with The New York Society for the Deaf; The Initiative for Women with Disabilities; The Welfare Rights Initiative; Project FIND, serving senior adults; The Lower East Side Girls Club, serving pre-teen girls; Youth Enrichment Services, serving gay and lesbian youth; and Voices of Women and Dwa Fanm, serving survivors of domestic violence. She has received a NYFA fellowship, and in 2005 was the first Jerome Robbins Fellow at the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy.

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