press + interviews
Bill T Jones interviews Kimberly Bartosik: On life, art, history and bLUr
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Trauma and Human Connection in Kimberly Bartosik’s "bLur," See Chicago Dance
by Rachel Benzing
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Kimberly Bartosik's New Dance Confronts the Uncomfortable Feelings in All of Us, The Fordham Observer
by Indira Bush
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The Panic Room, dancelog.nyc
by Leigh Witchel
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Containing Emergency, The Brooklyn Rail
by Jen C. George​
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bLUr, The Dance Enthusiast
by Sarah Cecilia Bukowski
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Dance Magazine: 9 Shows to Add to Your October Performance Slate
by Karen Dacko
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by Laura Zee​
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Interview with NPR aired on All Things Considered
By Elizabeth Blair
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Drawing the Line, bLUr, TAndBOnTheAisle
by Tamara Beck
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From the audience - bLUr:
"Images of ripe fruit, and the sky, and soil, how we drip and bleed our internal states, what is inside coming into contact with what we need from others, need from the world, dripping dripping, pulsing with a smell of ripeness and eternal dynamic fragility...the frame of the kids hugging at the top floored me, and as they split up with their task of lighting the world you were sharing with us, they became witnesses and inheritors of the path we move through. Soon we will leave but in the meanwhile we bleed, we reach, we ride, and we pass it on. The dance refuses to be ignored; it lingers in the body." - Annie-B Parson
“bLUr shakes one to the core, and yet, by sheer dint of the endurance you demand of us, we leave the theater with a strange, hard-won optimism: If I — if they — can survive such devastation, desire, and doubt, perhaps I am better equipped to muddle through the shitstorm that is our world right now.”
“It was a huge artistic triumph...We are living in fragile times. We shall move forward as a society because of your artistic contribution. ”
“Ephemeral, a cacophony of heat, feverish in organized and wild directions, foreground and background deeply connected, where seconds are long and minutes are quick.
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The Body: A Most Potent form of Communication
The Alchemy of Performance
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Movers & Shapers: Kimberly Bartosik
The Moving Architects
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IMPRESSIONS: Kimberly Bartosik/daela’s “through the mirror of their eyes” at New York Live Arts
by Erin Bombay
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More than everything and still be all: I hunger for you
Mary Conye, The Dance Center Columbia College Chicago
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Interviews: SuperSense Festival, Melbourne, Australia, August 2019
Arts Review, Aussie Theatre, and Dance Informa Australia
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A Dance About the Things We Carry (Sorrow and Rage)
Siobhan Burke, The New York Times
Pushing the Limits
Martha Sherman, danceviewtimes
Ecstasy and Exorcism in Kimberly Bartosik’s I hunger for you
Ivan Talijancic, The Brooklyn Rail
Hunger Appeased? Maybe Not
Deborah Jowitt, DanceBeat
Forever hunger: Kimberly Bartosik at BAM Fisher
Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody
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Award-Winning Choreographers Kimberly Bartosik/daela and Joanna Kotze at Wexner Center
Richard Sanford, Columbus Underground
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Why Lumberyard and BAM Are Teaming Up to Create a New Rural-Urban Dance Pipeline
Brian Schaefer, Dance Magazine
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BAM and Lumberyard Create New Dance Residencies
Joshua Barone, The New York Times
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Showing up in January: Day 3 Dispatch (AR Talks, LAVA, Cynthia Oliver & Kimberly Bartosik)
Maura Donahue, Culturebot
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Kimberly Bartosik: In close quarters at Gibney Dance
Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody
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Against the Wall
Deborah Jowitt, DanceBeat
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‘Bound’ and ‘Ecsteriority4 (Part 2)’ Explore Confinement and Collision
Siobhan Burke, The New York Times
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New dances by Bartosik and Crossman at Abrons Arts Center
Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody, May 21, 2015
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"Ms. Bartosik, in her honest, rigorous commitment to twos, wrests strange, raw, discomfiting dynamics from a deceptively simple structure.”
Siobhan Burke, Finding Poetry in Pairs,The New York Times
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"Beauty melts away into raw insistence...until the persistence of physical action becomes the fragile framework of a hope that, if stopped, we will lose"
Mary Conye, The Dance Center Columbia College
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“Kimberly Bartosik is one of the most intriguing descendants of Merce Cunningham.”
Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine
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"Your work...brought us to tears, so beautiful, powerful, and relevant to the times in which we find ourselves."
audience member, December 2019
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“Remarkable, heart-stopping duet… a beautiful and wrenching enigma.”
Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice​
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“…a serious, engaging exercise in minimalist dance abstraction”
John Rockwell, The New York Times
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“Both parts of Ecsteriority1&2 whittle the body down to its essence, and beyond, raising challenging questions about physicality, decay, and internal and external space. This is exciting work, careful and intentional without being overly constructed.”
-Elizabeth Bachner, Offoffoff.com
“Bartosik and her extraordinary collaborators have crafted a compelling work, a captivating experience that is physically expressive, musically dreamy, and visually stunning, and from which many levels of meaning and feeling can be derived.”
-Brian McCormick, Mediatized
“Brainy, but hot”
Nancy Dalva, The DanceView Times