bLUr (2025)
photos by Olivia Moon Photography
We are thrilled to announce that bLUr has been awarded a
National Dance Project/NDP Production grant!
Watching a loved one overdose haunts you in a way that will never leave your own body. bLUr is a highly physical and deeply visceral work that explores that haunting. Working with a sonic score centering around a human heartbeat, and within a landscape of constantly shifting light, bLUr is about urgent interventions, tender rescues, howling hunger, and the blurry line between them.
bLUr will premiere in the U.S. and Europe in 2025.
Featuring performers Burr Johnson, Joanna Kotze, Jacoby Pruitt, Donovan Reed, Hannah Straney
Original composition by Sivan Jacobovitz
Design by Roderick Murray
Creative Producer Caitlin Scranton @ The Blanket
For more information on National Dance Project and touring inquiries, please contact Caitlin Scranton: caitlin@theblanket.org
bLUr trailer
bLUr is 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 was developed in residency at Marble House Project, the Ragdale Foundation during a Sybil Shearer Fellowship, Bates Dance Festival, and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. The piece was presented as a work-in-progress in 2024 during Live Artery @ New York Live Arts and Bates Dance Festival. bLUr is also made possible through the generosity of individual donors, with major support by John Robinson.
