bLUr (2025)




photos by Olivia Moon Photography
We are thrilled to announce that bLUr has been awarded a
National Dance Project/NDP Production grant!
We are honored that bLUr has also received
2025 NYSCA Support for Artists Award as well as a
Project Grant from The Harkness Foundation for Dance!
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.
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Featuring performers Burr Johnson, Joanna Kotze, Jacoby Pruitt, Donovan Reed, Hannah Straney
Original composition by Sivan Jacobovitz
Design by Roderick Murray
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Creative Producer Caitlin Scranton @ The Blanket
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For more information on National Dance Project and touring inquiries, please contact Caitlin Scranton: caitlin@theblanket.org
bLUr trailer
bLUr is co-commissioned by L’Alliance NY’s Crossing the Line Festival AND by ADF 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. 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.
