{"id":4873,"date":"2022-04-01T20:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T20:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/?page_id=4873"},"modified":"2023-01-09T17:12:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T17:12:28","slug":"the-encounter-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/our-work\/visiting-artists\/the-encounter-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Encounter: Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t#builder-section-1673040616633 .builder-banner-slide {\n\t\tpadding-bottom: 600px;\n\t}\n\t@media screen and (min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 960px) {\n\t\t#builder-section-1673040616633 .builder-banner-slide {\n\t\t\tpadding-bottom: 62.5%;\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\t<\/style>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1673040616633\" class=\"builder-section  builder-section-first builder-section-banner builder-section-next-text\">\n<div class=\"builder-section-content cycle-slideshow\" data-cycle-log=\"false\" data-cycle-slides=\"div.builder-banner-slide\" data-cycle-swipe=\"true\" data-cycle-timeout=\"6000\" data-cycle-fx=\"scrollHorz\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-slide content-position-none\" style=\"background-image: url(&#039;https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MD200555WEB.jpg&#039;);\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-inner-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"builder-banner-slide content-position-none\" style=\"background-image: url(&#039;https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MD200638WEB.jpg&#039;);\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-inner-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"builder-banner-slide content-position-none\" style=\"background-image: url(&#039;https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MD108262WEB.jpg&#039;);\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-inner-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"builder-banner-slide content-position-none\" style=\"background-image: url(&#039;https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MD108126WEB.jpg&#039;);\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-inner-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cycle-prev\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cycle-next\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cycle-pager\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1648836514219\" class=\"builder-section builder-section-prev-banner builder-section-text builder-section-next-gallery builder-text-columns-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-1\" id=\"builder-section-1648836514219-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<h2>The Encounter: Buffalo<\/h2>\n<h3>Acclaimed choreographer, dancer, director and writer Kimberly Bartosik develops a dance piece in collaboration with Buffalo residents and the Torn Space design team as part of an artist residency supported by NYS Dance Force.<\/h3>\n<p>Dates: Fridays &#8211; Sundays May 13-22, 2022, 7:30pm<br \/>Location: 612 Fillmore Ave. Buffalo, NY (Adam Mickiewicz Library &amp; Dramatic Circle)<\/p>\n<p>Choreography and Direction by Kimberly Bartosik<\/p>\n<p><strong>About\u00a0<em>The Encounter: Buffalo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Encounter: Buffalo, created by choreographer\/director Kimberly Bartosik in partnership with Torn Space Theater, is a live work of physical theater featuring 9 local performers, ages 17-64. It exists within Bartosik\u2019s larger project, 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\u2013 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. <em>The Encounter: Buffalo<\/em> marks the first project within this series to premiere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Director\u2019s note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am deeply grateful for my superb cast and the extraordinary Torn Space Theater team. You have absolutely transformed and deepened my work, pushing it into artistic arenas I\u2019ve never encountered. Special thanks to Dan Shanahan and Melissa Meola for introducing me to this phenomenal community and for providing essential support and guidance of my artistic vision. To Frankie Napolski for expanding my understanding of the possibility of design in profound ways. To Carly Weiser for being the most brilliant Stage Manager (and everything else) I\u2019ve ever worked with! To Marisa and Holly for helping get the piece out onto the world. Thank you Margaret Kaiser and the NYS Dance Force for believing in the potential and power of this unique exchange. To Bronwyn Keenan and the Arts Collaboratory of University at Buffalo. And thank you to this very special city and Torn Space Theater itself for its electrifying and inspiring energy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Kimberly Bartosik:<\/strong> Choreographer, performer, educator, essayist 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 2020 Bessie Award Honoree for Outstanding Performance &amp; Outstanding Performer (Burr Johnson) for her work, through the mirror of their eyes (New York Live Arts). She is a 2021 recipient of a Doris Duke Foundation Performing Artist Recovery Fund in the New York Community Trust; a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography; and a 2020 Virginia B. Toulmin Women Leaders in Dance Fellowship at Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. Bartosik\u2019s work has been commissioned and presented by BAM Next Wave Festival, New York Live Arts, LUMBERYARD, American Realness, FIAF\u2019s Crossing the Line Festival, Abrons Art Center, Danspace Project, The Kitchen, La Mama, and others. She has toured to Supersense: Festival of the Ecstatic (Melbourne, Australia), Bratislava in Movement, Wexner Arts Center, Dance Place, American Dance Festival, The Yard, MASS MoCA\/Jacob\u2019s Pillow, FlynnSpace, Bates Dance Festival, Columbia College, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Select awards include National Dance Project (NDP) Production &amp; Touring Grant and Community Engagement Fund; MAP Fund; Jerome Foundation; FUSED (French-US Exchange in Dance); Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, USArtists International; Creative Arts Initiative (CAI); New Music USA, Live Music for Dance; and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artists and Emergency Grants.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for 9 years, Bartosik received a Bessie Award for Exceptional Artistry in his work. For more information on Kimberly\u2019s work, please visit: www.daela.org or follow us @kimberlybartosik_daela<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collaborative Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Creative Assistance by Burr Johnson<\/p>\n<p>Original sound and lighting by Frankie Napolski<\/p>\n<p>Design concept by Kimberly Bartosik in collaboration with Torn Space Theater<\/p>\n<p><strong>Production Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Production\/Stage Manager \u2013 Carly Weiser<\/p>\n<p>Box Office Manager \u2013 Anna Seidl<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Technical Directors \u2013 Tony Rajewski, Matt DaVita<\/p>\n<p>Technicians \u2013 Daniel Toner, Andrew Zuccari<\/p>\n<p><strong>Performers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brianna Battista<\/p>\n<p>Basosila Bolende<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Finan<\/p>\n<p>Nikiya Garza<\/p>\n<p>Mariangela Mercurio<\/p>\n<p>Umme Moon<\/p>\n<p>Kalub Thompson<\/p>\n<p>Priscilla Young-Anker<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Zuccari<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Thanks:<\/strong> The Adam Mickiewicz Library and Dramatic Circle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Select text<\/strong> from Werckmeister Hamonies by B\u00e9la Tarr<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1651511778771\" class=\"builder-section builder-section-prev-text builder-section-gallery builder-section-next-gallery builder-gallery-columns-3 builder-gallery-captions-reveal builder-gallery-captions-dark builder-gallery-aspect-square\" style=\"\">\n<h3 class=\"builder-gallery-section-title\">\n\t\tThe Encounter: Buffalo Process Photos\t<\/h3>\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-gallery-item\" onclick=\"return false;\">\n<figure class=\"builder-gallery-image\" style=\"background-image: url(&#039;https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220422_144018-768x1024.jpg&#039;);\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"builder-gallery-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-gallery-description\">\n<p>Photo credit: Carly 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