Ecsteriority 1 is an intense and affecting meditation on decay, eros, and the collapsibility of space performed by Tara Lorenzen and Marc Mann.  

Ecsteriority 1 is the first half of Bartosik’s two-part evening length work, Ecsteriority1&2, which premiered at Danspace Project in November 2008.  The piece is an intense and affecting meditation on decay, eros and the collapsibility of space.  The extraordinary cast includes: Elke Rindfleisch and Marc Mann (Ecsteriority1) and Wally Cardona and Derry Swan (Ecsteriority2).

The Materiality of Impermanence, Kimberly Bartosik’s newest work, investigates the traces and residues which bodies leave on each other, and the ways bodies take up space inside each other. Distinctly cinematic, the piece consists of a series of scenes which spring up spontaneously the way memories suddenly find their way into our consciousness. These scenes - defined through sparseness, stillness, silence, and a sense of time passing - are performed within Roderick Murray’s set made entirely of LED lights. Luke Fasano creates original music. Performers include Kimberly, Joanna Kotze, and Marc Mann. 

The title of Kimberly Bartosik’s new evening-length choreographic project, The Materiality of Impermanence, is taken from an article on Tacita Dean, whose 16 mm films have been a creative inspiration to Bartosik.  As the title suggests, Bartosik’s project looks at a complex architectural structure - the home - whose essence is an accumulation of shifting meanings created from the human dramas and material belongings of the occupants.

"This is exciting work, careful and intentional."

— Elizabeth Bachner, offoffoff.com

The Materiality of Impermanence is being commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop in NYC, where it will premiere February 3-6, 2010.