bLUr
Kimberly Bartosik
Schedule
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Friday, October 3, 2025
Saturday, October 4, 2025
World Premiere Â
Duration: 50 minutes
Built in cycles of desire and fierce compassion, bLUr exists within a landscape of physical and emotional crisis. Five performers of exquisite humanity navigate urgent interventions, tender and brutal rescues, inside a space of howling hunger and deeply erotic tenderness. In bLUr, time warps and haunts, reminding us of our fragility, power, and need to care for and rescue one another.
The October 3 performance will feature a Stay Late conversation moderated by renowned choreographer Ralph Lemon.
Co-Presented with New York Live Arts
Venue
Kimberly Bartosik
Choreographer, performer, educator, writer Kimberly Bartosik creates viscerally provocative, ferociously intimate choreographic projects that critically, tenderly, and violently etch away at deeply distressing threads of our society. Her work has been commissioned by BAM Next Wave, L’Alliance NY’s Crossing The Line Festival, New York Live Arts, Torn Space Theater, ADF, LUMBERYARD, American Realness, and others. She has toured to Supersense: Festival of the Ecstatic (Australia), Bratislava in Movement (Slovakia), Wexner Arts Center, Dance Place, ADF, The Yard, MASS MoCA/Jacob’s Pillow, FlynnSpace, Bates Dance Festival, Columbia College, Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort, Festival Rencontres Chorégraphique Internationales de Seine-Saint Denis, Artdanthe Festival, and others.
Bartosik’s work has been supported by New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project; New York State Council on the Arts/NYSCA; Harkness Foundation for Dance; MAP Fund; the Doris Duke Foundation Performing Artist Recovery Fund in the New York Community Trust; FUSED (French-US Exchange in Dance), a program of the New England Foundation for the Arts in partnership with The Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French American Cultural Exchange; Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, USArtists International; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; American Dance Abroad; and the Jerome Foundation. Other recognitions include a Bessie Award Honoree for Outstanding Production; a Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography; Virginia B. Toulmin Women Leaders in Dance Fellowship at Center for Ballet and the Arts; and a Sybil Shearer Fellowship at the Ragdale Foundation.
As a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, she received a Bessie Award for Exceptional Artistry and continues to work with the Cunningham Trust to stage Cunningham works and develop innovative programs for under-resourced youth. Bartosik currently teaches at SUNY/Purchase and acts as an Advisor at the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program where she also guest artists.
Billing Credits
Choreography & Direction by Kimberly Bartosik
Performed by Burr Johnson, Joanna Kotze, Ashley Merker, Jacoby Pruitt, Donovan Reed
Design by Roderick Murray
Lighting Design Assistants River Bartosik-Murray and Ari Barash
Original composition by Sivan Jacobovitz
Costume Design by Harriet Jung
Creative Producer Caitlin Scranton @ The Blanket
Production Manager: Emily VizinaProduction Credits
bLUr is co-commissioned by L’Alliance New York’s Crossing the Line Festival and by ADF/American Dance Festival with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works. bLUr is also made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and The Mellon Foundation. General Operating Support was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with funding from the Doris Duke Foundation. bLUr is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and with Project Support from The Harkness Foundation for Dance. The creation of the bLUr Community Engagement Workshop, made possible through NDP, was also developed with support from the 92Y Harkness Dance Center and in collaboration with Recanti-Caplan teen scholars. bLUr was developed in residency at Marble House Project, the Ragdale Foundation, and as an Artist in Residency at Bates Dance Festival. bLUr is also supported through the generosity of individual donors, with major support by John Robinson.
    
    
About New York Live Arts
New York Live Arts, guided by the leadership of visionary artist Bill T. Jones, collaborates with boundary pushing artists, advocates for their vision, and fortifies a creative future. It also serves as home base for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, which has been creating groundbreaking work for over forty years.
Support for Crossing The Line
and The Wescustogo Foundation
L’Alliance New York’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Header Image: bLUr © Olivia Moon Photography
Kimberly Bartosik headshot: © Maria Baranova
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