Community Engagement Workshop
With Kimberly Bartosik and Burr Johnson
Schedule
Friday, September 19, 2025 - Friday, January 30, 2026
Scheduled upon request. Date and time subject to availability.
This workshop is developed and led by Artistic Director/Choreographer Kimberly Bartosik and dancer/educator Burr Johnson. Presented in conjunction with Bartosik’s new work, bLUr, it aims to inspire reflection and community-building through physical movement.
The workshop will include both physical and imaginative exercises that bring the students closer to their own bodies, unique histories, memories, life values, while encouraging the power of community. Like bLUr, the workshop illuminates values of compassion, empathy, forgiveness, and trust. Constructed around questions asked in the creation of the piece, it connects the physical and emotional by asking: How do we construct support systems for ourselves and others? How do we know when to push into personal/life challenges and when to run away? The primary workshop goal is to remind our bodies of the power of trust when we place our weight–physical, emotional, spiritual – in someone else’s hands, and that even if we fall, the ground is not far away.
bLUr will be presented at New York Live Arts on Thu, Oct 2 – Sat, Oct 4 as part of L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival.
Venue
Event Pricing
All Other Schools: $5 per student
Teachers and Chaperones: Free
All school groups must be accompanied by teachers and/or chaperones. One adult chaperone is required for every 10 students
Kimberly Bartosik
Kimberly Bartosik, Artistic Director of Kimberly Bartosik/daela, is an internationally recognized choreographer (Guggenheim Fellow, National Dance Project Grantee, NYSCA, MAP fund, Bessie Awards, and many more) who began her professional dance career as a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. She is also a published writer with articles in Dance Magazine, Black Mountain Journal, Movement Research and others. Kimberly currently teaches a SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, The Ailey School, and for the Merce Cunningham Trust. www.daela.org.
Burr Johnson
Burr Johnson currently dances with Kimberly Bartosik/daela, Netta Yerushalmy, and The Trisha Brown Dance Company. He is a 2020 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award honoree for individual performance in Kimberly Bartosik’s “through the mirror of their eyes”. His choreographic work has been presented through Movement Research, Abrons Art Center, Danspace Project, The American Dance Festival, GIBNEY, Works and Process at the Guggenheim Museum, and The Future Dance Festival at the Joyce Theater. He was a 2024 Ailey New Directions Choreography Lab recipient.
Lead image © Spencer Weidie
Kimberly Bartosik © Maria Baranova 2020
Burr Johnson © Yunlin Zhu
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