NAME: RISA JAROSLOW

Genre: dance

Title: Breaking Dance

Project: Breaking Dance started with shards of movement from the last two years when projects were started, abandoned, completed, changed as we navigated the restrictions that Covid put on our ability to be together in person, close, touching. I built a short dance from those shards. Two dancers are working with me now to smash that dance into smaller fragments and build new dances from those pieces. In our presentation, we’ll share those processes.

Text: “And just as a seed cannot grow to perfection as long as it maintains its original form—growth coming only through decomposition—so these points could not become perfect configurations as long as they maintained their original form but only by shattering.” Menahem Azariah da Fano (1548 – 1620) in Yonat Elem