Don't miss your chance to take an open level contemporary master class with NYC based artist, Jesse Zaritt! Cost $20. 

Jesse Zaritt is a Brooklyn, NY based dance artist. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, having previously been the inaugural 2014-2016 Research Fellow in the University’s School of Dance. Jesse has performed his solo work in Uruguay, Russia, Korea, Germany, New York, Japan, Mexico, Israel and throughout the United States. His solo ‘Binding’ is the recipient of three 2010 New York Innovative Theater Awards: Outstanding Choreography, Outstanding Solo Performance, and Outstanding Performance Art Production.

Jesse was a performer with the Shen Wei Dance Arts Company (NYC/2001-2006), and the Inbal Pinto Dance Company (Tel Aviv/2008). He currently dances in the work of Netta Yerushalmy (NYC/since 2009). Jesse has also performed in the work of Faye Driscoll (NYC/2010-2015) and works as an artistic adviser for her current projects. Jesse has taught at Bard College (NY), the American Dance Festival (NC), Hollins University (VA) and Pomona College (CA), as well as at schools and festivals in Uruguay, Mexico, Japan, Korea, and Russia. Jesse received an MFA in Dance from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival (2008) and a BA from Pomona College (2000).

"What movement practices help bodies renegotiate the terms of their belonging within a given culture?I am thinking critically and with reverence about how and what our bodies learn in dance classes and choreographic processes; and then what ideologies our moving bodies serve as a result of our successful training. I'm thinking about obedience, rebellion and mastery. I'm thinking about what it means to be a valuable citizen of the “state” of dance, and by extension the world."

Cost: $20 at the door