City/Dans: RISA JAROSLOW & DANCERS Sixty November 13-15 and 20*-22, 2008 • [Thu-Sat] at 8:30pm Admission: $18.00 (members: $12.00) Powerful and exuberant, provocative and tender, Risa Jaroslow's Sixty is a portrait of a life, drawn from gathered memories, sensations, relationships, and events. On the occasion of her sixtieth birthday, Jaroslow sent sixty letters to friends, family, and colleagues requesting ideas for a dance. The responses were transformed into the fifteen sections that make up this new work. With its own visual, musical, and movement elements, each section offers a different lens through which to consider what makes up a life. One section is based on the phrase "the long haul;" another takes cues from the popular sixties tune Heat Wave; and in another section, Jaroslow answers a challenge to create a dance with 60 beginnings. A core cast of six powerful dancers -- Luke Gutgsell, Elise Knudson, Paul Singh, Gabriel Forestieri, Rachel Lehrer, and Jaroslow -- is augmented with an appearance by Vicky Shick and several special guests. Costumes and set by Clint Ramos and lighting design by Kathy Kaufmann complement the work. Risa is chronicling the development of Sixty online. Read her latest journal entry. www.risajaroslow.org "…curiously provocative moments." "Jaroslow is known for the tenderness and earthly strength of her movement style." The Village Voice * Join us for a RapUp discussion moderated by Deborah Jowitt (schedule permitting) following the Thursday, November 20th performance. Sixty is made possible, in part, with funds from the Danspace Project 2008-09 Commissioning Initiative implemented by the Mid-Size Presenting Organizations Initiative with support from the Nonprofit Finance Fund and funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding has been provided by The Jerome Robbins Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the New York State Dance Force.