bLUr (2025)
photos by Olivia Moon Photography
bLUr will premiere October 2, 2025 Co-Presented by New York Live Arts and L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival!
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 bLUr, time warps and haunts, reminding us of our fragility, power, and need to care for and rescue one another.
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Tickets on sale soon!!
Performances: October 2, 3, 4, 2025
7:30pm, New York Live Arts
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Featuring performers Burr Johnson, Joanna Kotze, Ashley Merker, Jacoby Pruitt, Donovan Reed
Original composition by Sivan Jacobovitz
Design by Roderick Murray
Costume Design by Harriet Jung
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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/American Dance Festival 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. 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.
