YouTurn – San Diego Story

Silly and Holy—Dance Artist Jesse Zaritt at youTurn

By Janice Steinberg | August 25, 2017 |

Tiny youTurn Arts, which puts on just one show a year, can hardly fill the gap left when Sushi went bust in 2011. Still, youTurn producers Erica Buechner and Anne Gehman have made terrifically savvy curatorial choices—like this year’s guest artist, Jesse Zaritt, whose solo, “send off,” felt wickedly ironic … and also holy.

Dance and the Right to Privacy at YouTurn

By Janice Steinberg | April 9, 2014 |

YouTurn 2014 offered an intriguing progression from a highly performative dance, to one combining a personal focus with performance, to a piece so private it was like peeking through curtains into the dancer’s living room. It also proved that, while bubble wrap never gets old, body painting does.