Current Project

Resist/Surrender

Whole Sky

Strings Attached

List of Pieces

Company Performance History

photo credit: Anja Hitzenberger

Jaroslow displays a gift for affirming more in others than one would think likely or possible.        -Dance Magazine

What makes you feel whole? As a person? As a community? How do we find rootedness in the wake of destruction, tragedy, or the plain old everyday grind? Whole Sky threads responses to these questions through Jaroslow's captivating choreography and a dynamic multimedia landscape. Community groups, including senior adults, gay and lesbian teens, and survivors of domestic violence, along with Jaroslow's professional dancers, created a dance that the New York Times called, "exquisite, like a drop of air suspended in honey."

The cast of six professional dancers, including Jaroslow, slip effortlessly from support to flight to complex partnering. In Whole Sky, dance becomes a communal and supportive act, an expression of total contentment, a struggle to find a comfortable resting place, a search for solid ground. Again and again, the dancers turn to each other for completeness.

The company is joined by three guest performers drawn from the community groups Jaroslow worked with. Adwoa Akhu, a psychologist and survivor of domestic violence, dances and tells the story of how she claimed a new name when she emerged from her abusive relationship. Lt. John Regan of the Fire Department of New York, describes his work on the September 11th recovery effort as well as the joy he finds in ballroom dancing. Midwife Nancey Rosensweig dances with Jaroslow while describing her experience of the beginning of life.

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