Kimberly Bartosik | blood anchor | Work-In-Progress Showing

Bartosik will come to MANCC for the first time to further the development of her new work blood anchor. During this early stage residency at MANCC, Bartosik, in collaboration with her three performers, will delve into the work’s dense movement vocabulary to reveal its emotional core.  She will also explore design elements with artist Roderick Murray and deepen her understanding of the themes driving the work  with dramaturg Irene Hultman. Rachel Gill’s role in this process is being created in collaboration with Ashley Merker.

blood anchor is a deeply physical, emotionally visceral choreographic work for three performers inspired by the complex power of blood relations and the epidemic of loneliness that has engulfed our culture. The work peers deeply into cracks that have formed in so many familial relationships within this decade of political polarization, and ways the tenacity of blood connection is being challenged long term. Structured as a series of interior maps anchored to moments (personal and global) of connection and fracture, blood anchor also draws from the film Sirāt by Oliver Lax which tracks a father’s unrelenting search through an unforgiving landscape for a lost child.