Jesse Zaritt’s work engages drawing as dancing – a visual and physical practice linked to dreaming, drafting, and materializing futures. His choreographic, performance and teaching practices research the ways in which excessive, contemplative and resistive dance practices take part in processes of social transformation. A series of solo works made between 2008 and 2022 interrogate attachments to Jewish ritual and community, seeking to queer dominant paradigms of familial/national belonging, religion, gender and sexuality. Zaritt is an Associate Professor at the University of the Arts and currently works in creative dialogue with Sara Shelton Mann.
ID: Photo of Jesse Zarrit performing in front of an audience. He stands with his legs wide apart. His torso is leanning forward with one arm reaching across his chest and the other reaching out behind him. His gaze is cast downward. Photo By Robbie Sweeney.