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Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat Out Lies

2010, June 22, Village Voice, "John Jasperse and Nicholas Leichter View Artifice Through Different Lenses", Deborah Jowitt

2010, June 19, The New York Times, "Hamming It Up, With Pink Light, Flashes of Murakami and Flowered Bikinis", Roslyn Sulcas

2010, June 19, Financial Times, "Review: John Jasperse Company", Apollinaire Scherr

2010, June 19, NJ Star Ledger, "Jasperse's new work looks at the stories lovers tell", Robert Johnson

2010, May 22, Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Dancing along the edge of 'Truth'", Caroline Palmer

2010, April 16, Los Angeles Times, "John Jasperse’s flirty West Coast premiere at REDCAT", Victoria Looseleaf

2010, April 10, Time Out Chicago, "John Jasperse: Live Review", Zachary Whittenburg


Becky, Jodi, and John

2009, May 29, The New York Times, "The Lives of Dancers: Tense and Fleeting", Roslyn Sulcas

2007, April 11, The Village Voice, "Next, The Toy Truck Will Plié", Deborah Jowitt

2007, April 6, The New York Times, "Three-Way Connection of Minds and Bodies", Claudia La Rocco

2007, April 3, The New York Times, "3 Dancers Making a Show of Their Age", Gia Kourlas


Misuse liable to prosecution

2007, November 1, Time Out New York, "Getting Wasted: John Jasperse talks trash", Gia Kourlas

2007, October 31, The New York Times, "Milk Crates in the Service of Low-Budget Commentary", Roslyn Sulcas

2007, October 30, The Village Voice, "John Jasperse Pulls a Treasure From the Trash", Deborah Jowitt


Prone

2006, July 15, The Boston Globe, "'Prone' explores the impact of perspective", Thea Singer

2006, May 9, The Irish Times, Christine Madden

2005, December 14-20, The Village Voice, "Watching watchers watch dancers up close and personal", Deborah Jowitt

2005, December 7, Newsday, "On stage, audience participation is required", Apollinaire Scherr

2005, December 5, The New York Times, "Up Close and Personal: Art at Eyelash's-Length", John Rockwell


CALIFORNIA

2005, March 17-24, Time Out Chicago, "Dancing about architecture", Asimina Chremos

2004, December 22-28, The Village Voice, "Behind Bars", Deborah Jowitt

2004, December 9, The New York Times, "Surrounded by Pianos, A Sculpture Overhead", Jennifer Dunning

2004, December 5, The New York Times, "The Pull of Human Emotions", Kathryn Shattuck

2004, July 1, The New York Times, "Evocations Of a Place Where Hope Is Fragile", Anna Kisselgoff


just two dancers

2003, June 11-17, The Village Voice, "Points of View", Deborah Jowitt

2003, June, New York Press, "Four Minus Two: Jasperse maps a mirror", Apollinaire Scherr

2003, May 29, The Wall Street Journal, "Two Dancers, 15 Platforms, Many Mirrors", Robert Greskovic

2003, May 15-22, Time Out New York, "Treasured Mapp", Gia Kourlas


Giant Empty

2002, April 7, Chicago Tribune, "'Giant Empty' is filled with unsettling effects", Sid Smith

2001, June 14, The New York Times, "Feelings for Open Spaces, None for Crowded Areas", Jack Anderson

2001, December 11, The Village Voice, "The Uncertainty Principle: Keep It Up", Deborah Jowitt

2001, November 16, The New York Times, "Exposed to the Elements in an Existential No Man's Land", Anna Kisselgoff

2001, July, ballet tanz, "Bubbles and Waves Under the Dance Carpet: John Jasperse shows 'Giant Empty' in Frankfurt", Gerald Siegmund

2001, June 13, The Herald-Sun, "Jasperse's dance combines movement, set and sound", Susan Broili


Waving to You from Here and Scrawl

2001, January 22, The New York Times, "Contemplating Dullness, the Liveliest Sort" Jack Anderson

2001, January 30, The Village Voice

1999, March 25, The Washington Post, "John Jasperse's'Waving'" The Sky Is Falling", Sarah Kaufman

1997, December 28, The New York Times, "The People Who Shaped the Cultural Year"

1997, April 29, The New York Times, "Making the Movements Spring From Thoughts", Jack Anderson

1997, May 13, The Village Voice, "Worlds of Difference", Deborah Jowitt

1997, Apr 24-May 1, Time Out New York, "Tidal Wave", Gia Kourlas


Excessories and Fort Blossom

2000, June 3, The New York Times, "Men Who Go Naked With Women Who Aren't", Anna Kisselgoff

2000, June 13, The Village Voice, "Choreography Travels in Diverse Landscapes: The Feistiness of Form", Deborah Jowitt

2000, August 9, ballet tanz, "From 1995 to Kubrick's 2001: John Jasperse' 'Excessories' and 'Fort Blossom' at The Kitchen in New York, Frank Werner

2000, June 6, The Village Voice, "Jasperse's Tonic for Excess: Spring Chaser", Whitney Vaughan

1997, August, ballet tanz, "the critics survey"

1997, 22 Mars, Le Monde, "John Jasperse, le nouvel Americain"

1996, October 5, Houston Chronicle, "'Excessories' displays a work of courage", Ann Holmes
1995-1996, Dec. 25-Jan.1, New York Magazine, "The Year's Best and Worst: All This For Only 1995", Tobi Tobias

1995, March 21, The Village Voice, "Dressed for Excess", Tobi Tobias


Madison as I imagine it

1999, May 2, The New York Times, "The hot, brainy choreography of John Jasperse", William Harris

1999, May 25, The Village Voice, "Exploring New Mother Tongues", Deborah Jowitt

1999, May 6-13, Time Out New York, "Eye of the beholder", Gia Kourlas

1999, May 11, The New York Times, "Imagination Comes Up With Bizarre Doings", Jack Anderson

1999, June 3, Lesbian & Gay New York, "Visualizing the Unknown", Brian McCormick




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