Kimberly Bartosik

Kimberly Bartosik is a choreographer, performer, educator, and writer who 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 2024 recipient of a National Dance Project Award, a program of New England Foundation for the Arts with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and The Mellon Foundation. She is a 2020 Bessie Honoree for Outstanding Production; a 2023 Sybil Shearer Fellow at the Ragdale Foundation; 2021 recipient of the Doris Duke Foundation Performing Artist Recovery Fund in the New York Community Trust; a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography; and a 2020-21 Virginia B. Toulmin Women Leaders in Dance Fellow at Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. Her work has been commissioned and presented by BAM Next Wave Festival, New York Live Arts, LUMBERYARD, FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival, American Realness, Onassis Foundation, Works in Process @ the Guggenheim (digital), Abrons Art Center, Gibney, Danspace Project, and others. Bartosik has toured to Bratislava in Movement, Supersense: Festival of the Ecstatic (Melbourne, Australia), Wexner Arts Center, Dance Place, American Dance Festival, The Yard, MASS MoCA/Jacob’s Pillow, The Flynn, Bates Dance Festival, The Dance Center at Columbia College, Festival Rencontres Chorégraphique Internationales de Seine-Saint Denis, Artdanthe Festival, and others. 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.  

Bartosik has also received support from the National Dance Project (NDP) Production & 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); American Dance Abroad; New Music USA, Live Music for Dance; and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artists and Emergency Grants.  

As a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, she received a Bessie Award for Exceptional Artistry and continues to work with the Cunningham Trust to develop innovative educational programs for under-resourced youth. Bartosik is currently Guest Artist Faculty at The Ailey School where she also serves as Advisor to Juniors in the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, and SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. daela.org