Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Kimberly Bartosik

Brooklyn, New York

Born 1965, Evanston, Illinois

Choreographer/Dancer/Writer

All my work starts like a baby, germinating inside my body-it begins as an idea, small but strong-and it hangs on until it pounds on my insides to get out into the world. Then I think of space-the home for the idea-which I choreograph as I choreograph bodies. Then I get into a studio, to listen to the idea, first alone, and then with others. I can't move without an idea.

Physical extremes, discomfort, the necessary tension between myself and my work. I'm obsessed with bodies (what they can and cannot do), rhythms, the architecture of space, literature, images, and light, and war, fractured landscapes, battling bodies. I'm also invested in the spectator body. That mass of eyes and ears and judgment. I always try to invite them in, to challenge their perspective, to make them feel they are a part of my piece (as they are a part of the world), without demanding their physical participation. I want everyone involved. I want them to think, to have to turn around in their seats, to remember that life happens on all sides. Being uncomfortable is ok. It makes you feel alive.

2003 M.A., Liberal Studies/20th Century Art and Art Criticism, New School University

1987 B.F.A., Dance, North Carolina School of the Arts

SELECTED WORKS

2008 Ecsteriority1&2, commissioned and premiered by Danspace Project, New York, NY

2007 Ecsteriority1, commissioned and premiered by The Kitchen, New York, NY

2006 home in the neon heat, co-commissioned by Movement Research and Danspace Project; premiered by Danspace Project, New York, NY

2004 I sat down on the bank the grass was damp a little then I found my shoes wet, premiered at Danspace Project, New York, NY

2002 The Mechanics of Fluids, commissioned and premiered by Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY

2000 1, premiered at The Kitchen, New York, NY; also performed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

SELECTED AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2008, 2006 Creative Residencies, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA

2007 Creative Residency, The White Oak Plantation, Yulee, FL

2007 Creative Residency, The Silo, Lehigh Valley, PA

2005-2007 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY

1997 New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award for Exceptional Artistry in the work of Merce Cunningham