SAWTOOTH dancers Review:
"[CJ Jasen] displays a sensibility that’s intriguingly

off-centered and roomy. Discover this artist."

Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody

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A.O. Movement Collective Review:
"[CJ Jasen] sings, very well.
...[CJ] turns the song 'Piece of My Heart' into an exhibition piece of passive aggression. She starts it with urgent sincerity and then develops that manipulatively."
The New York Times

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CJ is a dancer & singer/vocalizing performance human who has performed in cities across the US, and briefly joined a commercial dance company on tour in Niagara Falls. They studied with such artists as Meredith Monk, Akira Kasai, and Carolee Schneemann before making their own queer performance in NYC. 

In NYC, CJ has worked as a dancer, singer, and collaborator with Oren Barnoy, the A.O. Movement Collective, and can be seen dancing in Schneemann's 2010 Judson Church retrospective archived at the New York Public Library.
 

SAWTOOTH dancers, CJ's NYC-based dance troupe from 2007-2016, 

received funding and support from Brooklyn Arts Council, The Field's Artward Bound Residency in the Catskills, 92nd Street Y Space Grant,

and the New York Foundation for the Arts. CJ was a 2014 Artist-in-Residence in Réveillon, South Normandy, France. 

 

CJ is currently in Philadelphia (Lenapehoking), and created a collectively-run, accessible monthly event called Queerobics West Philly, a queerobics class and dance performance all in one. This project was awarded a 2023 Teaching Grant from the The Movement Foundation.
IG: @queerobics_west_philly 

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