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Choreographer, performer, educator, writer Kimberly Bartosik creates viscerally provocative, ferociously intimate choreographic projects that dramatically illuminate the ephemeral nature of performance while critically, tenderly, and violently etching away at deeply distressing threads of our society.
Bartosik is a 2026-27 Visiting Scholar at Center for Ballet & the Arts. She is a 2024 New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project Production Grant (NDP) recipient; a 2025 New York State Council on the Arts/NYSCA Support for Artists Award grantee with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and a 2025 Harkness Foundation for Dance Project Grant recipient. Other recent awards include: the Doris Duke Foundation Performing Artist Recovery Fund in the New York Community Trust; Bessie Award Honoree for Outstanding Production; Sybil Shearer Fellowship at the Ragdale Foundation; Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography; Virginia B. Toulmin Women Leaders in Dance Fellowship at Center for Ballet and the Arts @ NYU. She was an inaugural participant in the 2024 International Choreographers Retreat, organized by Montréal Danse and c.a.t.a.m.o.n Dance Group. She is collaborating with writer Violaine Huisman on a theatrical realization of Huisman’s Le Soleil pour aïeul.
Bartosik’s work has been commissioned and presented by BAM Next Wave Festival, New York Live Arts, L'Alliance New York & FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival, American Dance Festival, Torn Space Theater, LUMBERYARD, American Realness, Abrons Art Center, Gibney, Danspace Project, The Kitchen, La Mama, and others.
She has toured to Museum of Contemporary Art/MCA Chicago, American Dance Festival, Walker Arts Center (2027), PS21 Center for Contemporary Performance (2027), The Yard, MASS MoCA/Jacob’s Pillow, FlynnSpace, Bates Dance Festival, Columbia College, Wexner Arts Center, Dance Place, The Yard, MASS MoCA/Jacob’s Pillow, FlynnSpace, Supersense: Festival of the Ecstatic (Melbourne, Australia), Bratislava in Movement Festival (Slovakia), Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort, Festival Rencontres Chorégraphique Internationales de Seine-Saint Denis, Artdanthe Festival, Church, Mount Tremper Arts, and others.
Other awards include: National Dance Project (NDP) Production & Touring Grant and Community Engagement Fund from New England Foundation for the Arts; MAP Fund, Jerome Foundation; FUSED (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; Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, USArtists International; Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artists and Emergency Grants; Creative Arts Initiative (CAI); American Dance Abroad;New Music USA, Live Music for Dance; and a United States Artists Fellowship nomination. Her Encounter projects have received funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts; the Nathan M. Clark Foundation; and New York State Council on the Arts.
Creative residencies include: The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography/MANCC (2026); Hambidge Center for Creative Arts (2026); Bogliasco Fellowship; Ragdale Foundation; New York Live Arts, Live Feed and Studio Series; Torn Space Theater; Marble House Project; National Choreographic Center at Akron/NCCAkron; Centre Chorégraphique National-Ballet de Lorraine; LUMBERYARD Center for Film & Performing Arts; Gibney Dance Center’s DiP Residency; Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort; Governor’s Island through Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space Program; Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University; University of Buffalo; LaGuardia Performing Arts Center; Jacob’s Pillow; Kaatsbaan International Dance Center; Mount Tremper Arts; White Oak Plantation; and Movement Research. Bartosik has been a Choreographic Mentor as part of the Ailey School’s New Directions Choreography Lab and Ballet Hispanico Instituto Coreografico Award. She was a 2023, 2019 and 2015 Merce Cunningham Fellow. Her critical writing has been published widely, including articles featured in Dance Magazine.
A member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for 9 years, Bartosik received a Bessie Award for Exceptional Artistry in his work. She received her BFA in Dance from North Carolina School of the Arts, and MA in 20th Century Art and Art Criticism from The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Research of the New School University. Bartosik has been a guest artist/faculty at SUNY/Purchase Conservatory of Dance, The Ailey School, Sarah Lawrence College, Princeton University, The Juilliard School, Hollins University, Rutgers University, Bates College, The Playground, University of North Carolina School for the Arts, Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Colorado College, and University of Buffalo. She is currently an Advisor for The Ailey School/Fordham BFA Program and teaches at SUNY/Purchase, the Merce Cunningham Trust (MCT), and DeWitt-Clinton HS in the Bronx where she spearheaded a partnership between the MCT and the NYC DOE to bring Cunningham practice into under resourced NYC public high schools.