New York Live Arts Presents the U.S. Premiere of YOU ARE MY HEAT AND GLARE, 2/26-3/1

New York Live Arts presents the U.S. premiere of Kimberly Bartosik/daela's You are my heat and glare, February 26 - March 1 at 7:30pm in the third floor studios at New York Live Arts. Hailed by Dance Magazine as "one of the most intriguing descendants of Merce Cunningham," New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award-winning Bartosik, along with six other award-winning performers, take to the stage in this multi-disciplinary production created especially for the New York Live Arts studios.

Bartosik's evening length work, You are my heat and glare unfolds in a series of viscerally provocative, mixed-genre duets for dancers, designers and voice artists, including a duet for light and body featuring Bartosik and her longtime collaborator, lighting designerRodeRick Murray, who joins her onstage. Inspired by Anne Carson's poetic essay "The Anthropology of Water," You are my heat and glare grapples with the rawness of intimacy. It asks: What are we made of but hunger and rage? Choreographed by Bartosik in close collaboration with the performers, the work features dancers Joanna Kotze and Marc Mann and singers Gelsey Bell and Dave Ruder.

You are my heat and glare is commissioned by New York Live Arts and is made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is given by contributors to the Dance Theater Workshop Commissioning Fund at New York Live Arts.

You are my heat and glare was created, in part, with support from the Jerome Foundation; New Music USA; FUSED, French US Exchange in Dance; and American Dance Abroad. The work was developed, in part, through creative residencies at Jacob's Pillow, Mount Tremper Arts, Merce Cunningham Trust, and the Center for Performance Research.

Performances will take place in New York Live Arts' Theater. Come Early Conversations and Stay Late Discussions will also be featured with two shows. Tickets are $15 and $20, and may be purchased online at newyorklivearts.org/season, by phone at 212-924-0077 and in person at the box office. Box Office hours are Monday to Friday from 1 to 9pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 8pm.

About Kimberly Bartosik/daela:

New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award-winning performer Kimberly Bartosik creates viscerally provocative choreographic projects that are built upon the development of a virtuosic movement language, rigorous conceptual explorations and the creation of highly theatricalized environments. Her work, which is deeply informed by literature and cinema, involves complex plays on space, time and audience perspective, dramatically illuminating the ephemeral nature of performance. Bartosik's work has been commissioned and presented by New York Live Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, The Chocolate Factory (2015), Danspace Project, French Institute Alliance Francaise's Crossing the Line Festival, Rencontres Choreographiques Internationales de Seine-Saint Denis (France), Artdanthe Festival (France), BEAT Festival, The Kitchen, La Mama, Mount Tremper Arts, Barnard College, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Arizona State University and Movement Research at Judson Church. In 2005 she founded the organization daela, in order to facilitate the development of the creation of her artistic work.

Bartosik has received support for her choreographic work from the Jerome Foundation; Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation throughUSArtists International; New York Foundation for the Arts through Building Up Infrastructure Levels for Dance (BUILD); MAP Fund ; American Dance Abroad; New Music USA through Live Music for Dance; and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts,Grants to Artists (nomination only). Bartosik is a 2010 and 2012 FUSED grantee (French-US Exchange in Dance), a program of the New England Foundation for the Arts in partnership with The Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French American Cultural Exchange. In May 2013 she presented the European Premiere of You are my heat and glare at the Festival Rencontres Choreographiques Internationales de Seine-Saint Denis (France). Her next project will premiere at The Chocolate Factory in spring 2015.

She has been in creative residence at New York Live Arts as a Studio Series artist, Governor's Island through Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space Program; Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University; Choreographique Centre Nationale de Franche-Comté à Belfort, France; Joyce Soho Artist Residency Program; La Guardia Performing Arts Center; Jacob's Pillow; Kaatsbaan International Dance Center; Mount Tremper Arts; White Oak Plantation; and Movement Research.

Bartosik received her B.F.A. from North Carolina School of the Arts, and M.A. in 20th Century Art and Art Criticism from The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School University. From 1987-96, she was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, where she created over 19 original roles and toured extensively around the world. She performed in the 2011 restaging of Robert Ashley's 1967 opera, That Morning Thing, at The Kitchen (NYC) as part of Performa. She is currently a member and writer for the Brooklyn Commune and is a guest artist/faculty at University of North Carolina School for the Arts and Arizona State University's Hergberger Institute for Design and the Arts for 2013-14.

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We commission, produce and present performances in our 20,000 square foot home, which includes a 184-seat theater and two 1,200 square foot studios that can be combined into one large studio. New York Live Arts serves as home base for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, provides an extensive range of participatory programs for adults and young people and supports the continuing professional development of artists. Our influence extends beyond NYC through our international cultural exchange program that currently places artists in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Funding Support for New York Live Arts

Major support for New York Live Arts is provided by: Bloomberg Philanthropies; The Brownstone Foundation; The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation; Con Edison; The Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art; The Ford Foundation; The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; Florence Gould Foundation; Japan Foundation; Jerome Foundation; Lambent Foundation; MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts; The New York Community Trust; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; The Rockefeller Foundation NYC Cultural Innovation Fund; The Jerome Robbins Foundation; The Scherman Foundation; The Shubert Foundation; and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. New York Live Arts is supported by public funds administered by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.