Jesse Zaritt

ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 OUT THERE A WEST COAST EXPERIMENTAL DANCE FESTIVAL WEEK I OCT 2-4 7:30 PM Akoiya Harris (SEA) Jay Carlon (LA) WEEK II OCT 9-11 7:30 PM Vlada Kremenović (SEA) Sara Shelton Mann + Jesse Zaritt (SF) 12th Ave arts MainStage Find out more and get your tickets for the fall in our website. (We recommend getting a festival pass and seeing all the Kunst you can!) Special events included in your ticket and announced soon! <3 Vid montage @joseph____hernandez

❗️UPDATE: We will begin in SPACE 124 at the 401 Alabama Street Entrance for Project Artaud. ❗️Friday! Dive in with me and Jesse to explore our creative process. Free RSVP link in bio. About the event: A look into the making of L/are we dreaming: Part 2 (in-process) Friday, February 6 / 7PM Beginning in SPACE 124 at 401 Alabama St. ending in my loft #201 lovelisteningleaningliabilitylaborlanguorluminouslongingluckylogiclaughterliminal What are you dreaming? Extending a 10 year collaboration between Sara Shelton Mann and Jesse Zaritt, this work moves language, drawing and movement into increasingly urgent choreographic formations. We wonder how to dance into and out of the conditions conditioning with us, how to source from the images arising from the eye of the heart. Join us for an evening of discussion, performance, and good company. Light refreshments will be provided. Event is by donation. The 201 Salon Series is made possible by the support of the San Francisco Arts Commission.

back in July at the Ackerstadtpalast in Berlin. What a inspiring event, organised by @apricotproductions choreographed and danced by @pamela.pietro @jessezaritt #blackandwhitephotography #dancephotography #berlinart #performingarts #dance

47 years old today. dancing from July 2025. a work I made with Sara Shelton Mann at Dock 11 in Berlin. lighting by Nicolas Russi Andretti.

Improv Scenes: Jesse Zaritt (@jessezaritt ) and Paul Singh (@paulsinghdance ) 📍 Vermont | July 2025 @_thefieldcenter Witnessing Paul and Jesse dance together for the first time☺️☀️ #bitsandpieces Grateful to spend 10 wonderful days of learning/growing with Jesse, Paul, and the rest of the PANDA crew. ☺️ My legs are still feeling it lol 🙏 #perspective #nobigdeal #thisisit #adancedate #awitness #movement #followingmovement #movementexploration #pov #improvisation #changingperception #jessezaritt #paulsingh #contact #excerpts #3min #vermont ☯️ ☮️💟

performing @dock_11_ in Berlin this weekend! with @sara.shelton.mann … and @chrisaulut and @particula_extravagante . sound by @niallllain . Thursday, Friday and Saturday (July 3, 4 and 5) at 7:30. L/are we dreaming. ticket link in bio. all photos by @robbiesweeny

𝙇/𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙖𝙧𝙖 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙣 / 𝙅𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚 𝙕𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙩 ➞ 03 / 04. / 05. Juli / 19.30 Uhr ➞ Dauer: 50 min
➞ Sprache: Englisch LiebeHörenLebensfähigkeitLaborLehreLichtGlückLogikLachenLiminal Was träumst du? Diese Arbeit ist die Fortsetzung einer neunjährigen Zusammenarbeit zwischen Sara Shelton Mann und Jesse Zaritt und bringt Sprache, Zeichnung und Bewegung in immer dringlichere choreografische Formationen.
Wir fragen uns, wie wir in die Bedingungen, die uns konditionieren, hinein und aus ihnen heraus tanzen können; wie wir den Bildern, die aus dem Auge des Herzens entstehen, entspringen können. Welche Möglichkeiten des Miteinanders können wir vielleicht noch nicht erkennen, aber in unserem Tanz, unserem gemeinsamen Träumen angehen? Von und mit: Sara Shelton Mann, Jesse Zaritt,
Sounddesign: Niall Jones Eine Koproduktion von DOCK ART. #dock11dance #dock11 #danceberlin #interdisciplinarydance

our duet opens tonight @lamamaetc !! big love to @pamela.pietro , @niallllain , @nickyparaiso and the entire tech team for bringing this work to life. happy to share the evening with @jordan.d.lloyd . link for tickets in bio. first image by @createdby.zu , the rest are by me — Pam and I through the years of our friendship…

Grateful to have served as an adjudicator at the ACDA Baja Region Conference alongside Maura Keefe and Jessie Zaritt. We witnessed 43 powerful works—diverse, spirit-filled, and deeply moving. The Baja region is incredibly special for its honesty, its ability to reflect inward, and its commitment to presenting cultural anchors and pillars on stage. As we continue to wrestle with the pandemic’s aftermath and the weight of mental health, may we remember joy and pleasure as tools for survival—and resistance. #ACDA2025 #BajaRegion #DanceCommunity #JoyIsRadical #DanceAsResistance

performance coming up! @pamela.pietro and I have been making a duet! it is called: dance for no ending … we are presenting the work as part of La MaMa MOVES curated by @nickyparaiso @lamamaetc … shows are April 25, 26 and 27! link for tickets in bio. photo of Jesse by @robbiesweeny (from Bear Graham’s DANCE LOVERS 13), photo of Pam by Yasmeen Enahora, drawings by Jesse.

✨WIP Artist Highlight ✨ WIP: April 12 at 6pm in The Workroom Pamela Pietro & Jesse Zarrit Jesse Zaritt’s work engages drawing as dancing - a visual and physical practice linked to dreaming, drafting, and materializing futures. Jesse has performed his solo work in Taiwan, Uruguay, Korea, Germany, Japan, Mexico and throughout the United States. He has performed with Shen Wei Dance Arts and in the work of Netta Yerushalmy and Faye Driscoll; he worked as an artistic adviser for Driscoll’s projects through April 2023. Jesse is a faculty member of the newly formed Bennington BFA Dance Lab and worked as an Associate Professor at the University of the Arts through the spring of 2024. He currently works in creative dialogue with Sara Shelton Mann. Pamela Pietro is a dance artist and educator; she received a BFA in Dance from Florida State University and a MFA in Dance with a minor in Biomedical Ethics from the University of Washington. She is Chair and Arts Professor at New York University Tisch School for the Arts, Department of Dance, where she received the prestigious David Payne-Carter Award for Teaching Excellence in 2012/2013. She has directed the Tisch Dance Summer Residency Festival 2014-2021, the Tisch Dance in Berlin Program, and Future Dancers and Dancemakers. She proudly served on the Bessie Awards Search Committee from 2019-2021 and taught for the American Dance Festival (17 years). From 2004 to 2018, Pamela assisted the pioneering neuroanatomist Irene Dowd in teaching anatomy/movement workshops. Pamela has performed professionally with Gerri Houlihan, Anthony Morgan, Michael Foley, RaceDance, bopi’s black sheep/dances, Jennifer Nugent, Monica Bill Barnes, Joanna Kotze and Jesse Zaritt. Most recently, she performed in the work The March at the PAC Theater in New York City and at Carolina Performing Arts in Chapel Hill, NC, collaborating with choreographers Donna Uchizono, Tendayi Kuumba, and Annie B Parson. She has taught and performed her solo work throughout Asia and Europe.

JOIN US THIS SUMMER 🌞🌈🌊 PANDA 2 | PAUL SINGH + JESSE ZARITT | JULY 17 - 27 PANDA [Performance And New Dance Arrivals] are some of the longest programs offered at the Field Center and they are deep dives into living with one another as artists while training daily with established teachers in the field. Daily classes are punctuated by swims in the river, saunas, fresh food from our gardens, long naps in the library, field trips and performances at night. JESSE ZARITT: Sessions will begin with guided research practices that examine relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, organizations of effort/force and ideology/aesthetics: practices of critical physicality! Phrase-work will be shared as a portal to play. Choreographed material will act as a set of coordinates that anchor an exploration of exaggeration and sensation. We’ll fall into and out of lush, decadent movement experiences.  PAUL SINGH: Classes will be structured in three separate modules; Floorwork, Contemporary, and Contact Improvisation. Elements if these modules will include: across-the-floor sequences, improvisation, inversions, the spine—[how we engage it through homolateral, contralateral, and sequential pathways], complex precision and wild release, and Contact Improvisation skills. LEARN MORE AT /panda-labs-2025 (/panda-labs-2025) !