Complete List of Repertoire

Talking Circle

​2022. Risa Jaroslow & Dancers, vocalist/composer Amy X Neuburg, and guest performers from the Elders Project at Destiny Arts Center. Premiere: CounterPulse, San Francisco.

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At Your Service

​2019. Risa Jaroslow & Dancers, vocalist/composer Amy X Neuburg, and guest performers. Premiere: ODC Theater, San Francisco.

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Project 190

2018. Five third-year students from the University of Central Lancashire and ten people from the city of Preston, Lancashire. Premiere: University of Central Lancashire

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Touch Bass

​2017. 3 dancers, 3 musicians. Premiere: ODC Theater, San Francisco.

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Evolutionary Tales

2014. 2 dancers. Premiere: The Garage, San Francisco.

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What's the Upshot?

2013. 4 dancers. Premiere: Shawl-Anderson Dance Center.

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Sixty

2008. 6 dancers and 15 guest performers. Set and costumes by Clint Ramos. Premiere: Danspace Project. 

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The Partner Project

2009. Ten dancers, commissioned score by Robert Een played live by Een and Hearn Gadbois, video by Barbara Bickart. Premiere: Danspace Project, NYC.

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311

2008. 6 dancers. Set to a sound score consisting of live interviews with audience members. Premiere: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Sitelines 2008, part of the River to River Festival.

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Resist/Surrender

2006. 4 dancers, 11 guest performers, original score by Scott Johnson, performed live by Fireworks Ensemble, set by Perry Gunther, costumes by Clint Ramos. Premiere: Danspace Project, New York City.

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Whole Sky

2004. 6 dancers, 5 guest performers, original score by Steve Elson, video by Barbara Bickart. Premiere: Open Look Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia. New York premiere: Dance Theater Workshop.

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My Dad's Tacos

2004. 10 students of the University of Maryland Dance Department, music by Leo Kottke. Premiere: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland.

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Strings Attached

2003. 5 dancers, 5 musicians, original music by Diedre Murray, performed live. Video/audio by Barbara Bickart. Premiere: Duke on 42nd St, 9th Annual 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Project.

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Knots of Memory

2003. For Kannon Dance Company, St. Petersburg, Russia, music by Tchaikovsky. Premiere: Kannon Dance Theater, St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Bliskosc

2001. 10 dancers, 10 singers/musicians; traditional Silesian folk songs sung live by members of Piekarskie Klachule. Premiere: 8th International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Poland. 

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Fidl

2001. 6 dancers: original and traditional music by Alicia Svigals. Premiere: 8th International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Poland.

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Table Talk

2000. 6 dancers, original music by Bruce Mack , performed live. Premiere: Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church. 

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Home/Wire Walking

2000. 6 dancers and guest artists, 2 Project Home participants, original music by Ellen Maddow, performed live by the cast. Premiere: Danspace Project at St Mark's Church.

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Pool Party Paradise II

1999. 9 dancers, 3 senior adults, 12 wading pools, original music by Steve Elson. Premiere: Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors.

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Jubilee

1998. 2 dancers, original music by Ellen Maddow, performed live by the composer. Premiere: University Settlement.

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Get a Job

1998. 7 dancers, 2 actors, original music by Jason Kao Hwang , performed live. Premiere: University Settlement. 

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Encounters at the Border

1997. Created with theater artist Arthur Strimling; 12 performers (members of Risa Jaroslow & Dancers and Roots and Branches Theater) original music by Jason Kao Hwang , performed live. Premiere: Lincoln Center Out of Doors.

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Book Song Woman Man

1995. 5 dancers, 1 actor, 5 older adult guest performers. Original score by Steve Elson, performed live. Set by Perry Gunther. Premiere: Dance Theater Workshop. 

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Dance with Two Voices

1995. 3 dancers, 3 singers, traditional Bulgarian music performed live by Urban Woman/Village Songs. Premiere: Harkness Dance Festival at the 91st Street Playhouse. 

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