In i like penises: a little something in 24 acts Bartosik creates a choreographic play on power, desire and value. The work is a dialogue between art forms, as the cast of three dancers and one visual artist perform their crafts live, alongside one another, in a series multi-layered scenes. The art forms and the performers interrupt each other in a highly virtuosic and seriously competitive play of replacement.

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During the course of each performance, collage artist  Jonathan Allen builds a unique work of art out of cheap objects (purchased from 99¢ stores) the dancers offer and seduce him with. As these cheap objects move from the dancers’ game of give and take to become part of a “work of art”, their significance/value shifts and transforms.

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Bartosik is interested in highlighting the obvious and subtle differences between the ephemerality of live performance and replaceable objects in contrast to the more permanent material form of object-based art, both as they are created and in their existence post-performance. Alongside Allen, performers include: Joanna Kotze, Marc Mann, and Edmond Russo (France). Lighting designer Roderick Murray joins Bartosik for his fifth project.

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i like penises: a little something in 24 acts premiered in NYC at Danspace Project September 22-24, 2011. i like … was created at the CCN-Franche-Comte de Belfort, France during a FUSED residency and through a Swing Space Intensive residency at Building 110: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center at Governors Island. The work is co-presented and co-commissioned by the French Institute/Alliance Francaise’s Crossing the Line Festival and Danspace Project’s Commissioning Initiative, a core component of the Choreographic Center Without Walls (CW²). with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The work is also made possible through the generous support of the Jerome Foundation.