Kimberly Bartosik
bLUr
Oct. 3 Stay Late conversation moderated by Ralph Lemon
Tickets start at $30 with limited Pay-What-You-Wish options
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 Kimberly Bartosik’s bLUr, time warps and haunts, reminding us of our fragility, power, and need to care for and rescue one another.
About L’Alliance New York
L’Alliance New York is an independent, not-for-profit organization committed to providing its audience and students with engaging French language classes and audacious multi-disciplinary programming that celebrates the diversity of francophone cultures and creativity around the world. A welcoming and inclusive community for all ages and all backgrounds, L’Alliance New York is a place where people can meet, learn, and explore the richness of our heritages and share discoveries. L’Alliance New York strives to amplify voices and build bridges from the entire francophone world to New York and beyond.
About Crossing The Line
Crossing The Line is a citywide festival that engages international artists and New York City audiences in artistic discovery and critical dialogue to re-imagine the world around us. Crossing The Line is produced by L’Alliance New York in partnership with leading cultural institutions.
Choreography & Direction: Kimberly Bartosik
Performers: Burr Johnson, Joanna Kotze, Ashley Merker, Jacoby Pruitt, Donovan Reed
Design: Roderick Murray
Lighting Design Assistants: River Bartosik-Murray and Ari Barash
Original Composition: Sivan Jacobovitz
Costume Design: Harriet Jung
Creative Producer: Caitlin Scranton @ The Blanket
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. The work 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 during a Sybil Shearer Fellowship, 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.
