Kimberly Bartosik/daela collaborates with a diverse population of artists around the world. Her current project, bLUr, features some of NYC's most exquisite performers, including:

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Burr Johnson currently dances with Kimberly Bartosik/daela, Netta Yerushalmy, and The Trisha Brown Dance Company. He has performed with John Jasperse Projects (2010-2016), Shen Wei Dance Arts (2009-2017), Marina Abramović/GIVENCHY, Ryan McNamara, Boris Charmatz, Isabel Lewis, Christopher Williams, Sally Silvers, Bill Young, Jack Ferver, Moriah Evans, and The Merce Cunningham Trust for "Night of 100 solos: LA". He is a 2020 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award honoree for individual performance in Kimberly Bartosik’s “through the mirror of their eyes”. His choreographic work has been presented through Movement Research, Abrons Art Center, Danspace Project, The American Dance Festival, GIBNEY, Works and Process at the Guggenheim Museum, The Future Dance Festival at the Joyce Theater, and The Alvin Ailey School. He has received artist residencies through Redtail Arts, The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, The Alvin Ailey School’s New Directions Choreography Lab,  and New York Live Arts’ Studio Series.

 

Joanna Kotze is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, dancer and educator. Her piece, She received a 2024 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists, the 2013 Bessie for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer, and her 2018 piece What will we be like when we get there, was nominated for an Outstanding Music Composition Bessie. Her work has also been supported by the Nathan M. Clark Foundation, City Artist Corps, New Music USA, the Jerome, Mertz-Gilmore, and Harkness Foundations, NYFA BUILD, Brooklyn Arts Council, and the FCA Emergency Grant. Her choreography has been presented by UtahPresents, American Dance Festival, Wanås Konst, Irondale, The Yard, Bates Dance Festival, Stonington Opera House, New York Live Arts, Wexner Center, Velocity, the NAC in Ottawa, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Danspace Project, ADI, Bard, Jacob’s Pillow, DNA, Roulette, Dixon Place, 92nd Street Y, Movement Research at Judson, and others. She has been supported through residencies throughout the US and Europe and has taught all over the world. Joanna currently dances for Kimberly Bartosik/daela (2009-present) and Stacy Spence, and has worked with Annie-B Parson, Donna Uchizono, Tendayi Kuumba, Wally Cardona (2000-2010,2018), Kota Yamazaki, Netta Yerushalmy, Sam Kim, Sarah Skaggs, Christopher Williams, the Metropolitan Opera ballet, Daniel Charon, and others. She is originally from South Africa and has a BA in Architecture from Miami University. joannakotze.com

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Jacoby Pruitt (he/him) is a New York City based performer, teaching artist, and choreographer. Currently in his 4th season as a performer with the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company, Jacoby is also working  with the Sean Curran Company, and Kimberly Bartosik/ Daela. He began his dance training in Miami, Fl where he attended New World School of the Arts. He is an honors’ graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of Dance and the recipient of the Martha Hill Dance Fund’s “Young Professional” Award (2015) as well as a New York Dance & Performance Bessie Award (2022). Jacoby has danced with Ailey II, Company XIV, The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, & Sean Curran Company, among other choreographers and freelance opportunities. His tv & film credits include Good Morning America, Comedy Central’s “Alternatino”, In The Heights (film) & music videos for various recording artists including Fletcher, Lexxe, Chad Lawson, Nicky Doll & Loren Allred. 

Follow Jacoby on IG: @Jacobypruitt

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Donovan Reed

 

Hannah Straney (she/her) earned a BFA in Dance Performance from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. Hannah has performed works by Kimberly Bartosik, Skyla Schreter, Shannon Gillen, Sidra Bell, Tom Weinberger, Azure Barton and others. Hannah toured nationally with Dirty Dancing, and spent four years at Company XIV as a singer, dancer, and actor. Hannah served as the associate choreographer for NYC’s immersive experience, ‘The Stranger’, assisting Tislarm Bouie, and originating a role in the show. She works with the Merce Cunningham trust, and most recently performed in the 2023 Rockaway Beach Sessions restaging of Beach Birds. She is currently a swing in Emursive’s Life and Trust.

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Design team:

Roderick Murray (lighting designer) has designed lights for dance since 1989 working with artists around the world including Kimberly Bartosik, Ralph Lemon, Benjamin Millepied, Yanira Castro, Lacina Coulby, and many others. He is currently the Director of Production for Beth Morrison Projects.

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Sivan Jacobovitz (composer) lives in Brooklyn. Dance collaborations include: TRIBE/Shamel Pitts' Black Hole and Touch of RED; Kimberly Bartosik's I hunger for you & through the mirror of their eyes & bLUr (ongoing); MENAGERIE (with Shamel Pitts/Deville Cohen/Gibney Company); ASSEMBLY with GREYZONE.

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