dance for no ending

ABOUT

This duet is an experiment in accumulation and dissolution. We trace, describe, inscribe, erase, observe, fantasize and imprint. Through persistent dancing, we attempt to exhaustively examine, negotiate, dissect, inflate and undermine the movement vocabularies and patterns of effort that produce what we think of as ourselves.

We think of this dance as a kind of prayer – if prayer can be understood as a petition to the unknown, an action that makes space for wonder, urgency and bewilderment, radical presence and a joyful abandonment of self.

CREDITS

Created and performed by Pamela Pietro and Jesse Zaritt
Artistic advisement and sound design by Niall Jones

BIOS

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. 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 and Pamela Pietro.

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.