The Encounter: Buffalo

The Encounter: Buffalo was created in partnership with Torn Space Theater

The Encounter: Buffalo (2022) is a live work of physical theater featuring 9 local performers, ages 17-64. It was the first project created within Bartosik’s larger on-going series, The Encounter, which she is creating with communities around the world, merging professional, pre-professional, and non-professional performers. The work is an encounter with oneself , pulling from what we are currently carrying in our bodies–grief, hope, fear, desire, newfound power- and pairs it with our dreams in this moment of reconciliation with time, as we dig our lives out of the pandemics of this age. The burgeoning result is a cross-geographic, global conversation about the ferocious power of the body as a form of communication and the potency of movement as a connective language.