Jen Rosenblit
Jen Rosenblit has been making performance in New York City since 2005. Rosenblit is a recipient of a 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Emerging Choreographer, an inaugural recipient of THE AWARD, a 2014-2015 workspace artist through Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a 2013 Fellow at Insel Hombroich (Germany), a recipient of the 2012 Grant to Artists from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a 2009 Fresh Tracks artist (Dance Theater Workshop). Rosenblit has received commissions from The Kitchen (a Natural dance, 2014, New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award), New York Live Arts (In Mouth, 2012), Danspace Project (When Them, 2010) and Issue Project Room (Pastor Pasture, 2013) in collaboration with composer Jules Gimbrone. Rosenblit has worked as a performer and collaborator with artists including Young Jean Lee, Ryan McNamara, Yvonne Meier, Sasa Asentic, Anne Imhof, Miguel Gutierrez and Simone Aughterlony. Recent works focus on an improvisational approach to choreographic thought, locating ways of being together amidst impossible spaces.