Jaroslow's "Sixty"

[Note: Correction of closing date.]

For the life of me, I cannot understand how most Americans--even some smart ones--miss the exceptional value of dance and dancers. One could not ask for more from art and performance than we are receiving from Risa Jaroslow & Dancers in Sixty, this week, at Danspace Project.

In 2007, prior to her sixtieth birthday, Jaroslow solicited dance ideas from a range of people she'd known. From their varied ideas, she selected nine, worked them over and came up with a surprisingly seamless, if frequently nutty, blend of fifteen sections in sixty minutes. Sixty is a work of ferocity, wit and charm. It's a symphony of relationships rendered with full-tilt intensity and sensitivity by Jaroslow and her delicious, gustsy company--Gabriel Forestieri, Luke Gutgsell, Elise Knudson, Rachel Lehrer and Paul Singh--plus a large corps of guests, including Vicky Shick.

Do your heart a favor and go. There's just one more show--tonight at 8:30pm.

Tickets (or 866-811-4111)

Risa Jaroslow & Dancers Web site
Jaroslow's journal: notes on the creation of Sixty