Workshop with Jesse Zaritt and Pamela Pietro

October 4, 12:00-1:30pm in The Workroom at 33 Hawley St, Northampton MA

For experienced movers; space opens 30 minutes before for check-in and arriving.

Sliding scale $15-$20-$25-$35 (Income supports festival artists)

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 change how movement arises in the world and how dancing participates 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. 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 has taught and performed her solo work throughout Asia and Europe. 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. Pamela has performed professionally with 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.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Northampton Community Arts Trust, 33 Hawley St, Northampton, United States