Brooklyn Academy of Music Adam E. Max, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Katy Clark, President Joseph V. Melillo, I hunger for you Executive Producer Kimberly Bartosik / daela DATES: OCT 31—NOV 3 at 7:30pm Season Sponsor: LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) Leadership support for dance at the RUN TIME: 50mins no intermission BAM Harvey and the BAM Fisher provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by The Harkness Foundation for Dance This production is made possible with support from the Joseph V. Melillo Fund for Artistic Innovation Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation Support for female choreographers and composers in the Next Wave Festival provided by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Support for dance at the BAM Fisher provided by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation #KimberlyBartosik Chubb is a lead sponsor of BAM #BAMNextWave BAM Fisher I hunger for you ABOUT I hunger for you NY Premiere The creation and presentation of I hunger Over the past year, working in close Choreography and Direction for you is made possible, in part, through collaboration with my exquisite cast & Kimberly Bartosik commissions from BAM Next Wave extraordinary designers, I hunger for created in close collaboration with Festival and LUMBERYARD Center for you has spilled out of us with incredible performers Film and Performing Arts through an force. We have found ourselves enmeshed inaugural year BAM/LUMBERYARD in sweaty, intense practices based on Performers partnership. The work premiered at LUM- personal reflections on faith, violence, life Christian Allen BERYARD Center for Film and Perform- force, and compassion. Excavating a kind Dylan Crossman ing Arts where it also received significant of pulse from the body, we have been Burr Johnson development support in LUMBERYARD’s asking, “Where does the desire for faith Lindsey Jones residency program. locate itself in the body?” Joanna Kotze Dahlia Bartosik-Murray I hunger for you has also received gener- In I hunger for you, we’re sourcing—from ous funding from: The MAP Fund, primar- the subterranean recesses of our bodies— Lighting and set design ily supported by the Doris Duke Charitable the deeply human desire to connect... Roderick Murray Foundation with additional funds from with each other, with a divine force, with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; New something outside, with something within Music England Foundation for the Arts’ National ourselves. It doesn’t matter where we look. Sivan Jacobovitz Dance Project Production Grant, with lead What matters is that, at some point in arranged with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable this fleeting existence, we look, pull, take, Kimberly Bartosik Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon give, and feel hunger. Foundation; General Operating support Costume design was made possible by the New England Harriet Jung Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance —Kimberly Bartosik Project with funding from the Doris Duke Sound engineer Charitable Foundation; Production Resi- James Bigbee Garver dency & Community Engagement Fund funded by the New England Foundation Dramaturg for the Arts’ National Dance project, with Melanie George* funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; New York Live Arts’ Live Feed Residency Program; and administrative support through Pentacle’s ART Program. Commissioned by BAM and I hunger for you was created, in part, LUMBERYARD Center for Film and during a National Dance Project Late Performing Arts Stage Production Residency @ National Choreographic Center-Akron (NCC-Akron); World Premiere, LUMBERYARD Center accueil studio residency @ Centre Choré- for Film and Performing Arts, October 12, graphique National-Ballet de Lorraine; 2018 Bogliasco Fellowship; Marble House Project Residency; Upstream Residency *made possible by LUMBERYARD Center @ Kaatsbaan International Dance Center; for Film and Performing Arts and DANCENOW Silo. American Dance Abroad; New Music USA, Faculty of Political and Social Research Crossman became an understudy for the Live Music for Dance; and Foundation for of The New School University. She was a Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artists and 2016 Princeton Fellowship Finalist, and 2007, joined the main company in 2009, Emergency Grants. She is a 2018 Creative has been a guest artist/faculty at Princeton and was a part of the company’s final tour Who’s Arts Initiative (CAI) grantee. University, The Juilliard School, Rutgers through 2012. Now living the freelance University (2019), University of North life, he works with Kimberly Bartosik/ Bartosik is a 2017—19 New York Live Carolina School for the Arts, Arizona State daela, Ryan McNamara, Sally Silvers, Arts Live Feed Residency Artist where she University’s Hergberger Institute for Design Amber Sloan, Pam Tanowitz, and Megan is developing I hunger, the sister piece to and the Arts, SUNY/Purchase, Colorado Williams. He is on faculty at the Who I hunger for you, for a December 2019 College, and University of Buffalo (2019). Cunningham Trust, SUNY Purchase, premiere. She was a 2017 Dancing Burklyn Ballet Theatre, and Barnard KIMBERLY BARTOSIK Laboratory Residency Artist at the National College. He is also a stager for the Cun- Choreographer/Director Center for Choreography at the University CHRISTIAN ALLEN ningham Trust where he has worked on of Akron (NCCAkron); a 2017 Bogliasco Performer productions of Cross Currents (1964), Bessie Award-winning performer Foundation Fellow; a 2015 Merce Changing Steps (1973), and Trails Kimberly Bartosik’s work has been com- Cunningham Fellow; and a 2016 Gibney Christian Allen grew up in Cambridge, MA, (1982) as well as staging Changing Steps missioned and presented by BAM Next Dance DiP Residence Artist. She is a where he began dancing at the age of five on Interlochen School for the Arts. Wave Festival, LUMBERYARD Center recipient of an ART, a Capacity-Building with JAM’NASTICS INC, a local hip-hop for Film and Performing Arts, New York grant through Pentacle (2016-19). company. His formal dance training began Crossman is a two-time Bessie Award Live Arts, Wexner Arts Center, 92nd St. in high school where he studied ballet, recipient, the first for his work in Y Fridays @ Noon (2019), American Bartosik has been in creative residence at modern, and improvisational dance. In the Tanowitz’s Be in the Gray with Me (2009) Realness festival, Dance Place, American New York Live Arts, Live Feed and Studio course of receiving his BFA from the Con- and the second as part of the Cunningham Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, Series; NCCAkron; Centre Chorégraphique servatory of Dance at Purchase College, Company’s Legacy Tour (2012). His own Gibney Dance, Abrons Art Center, The National-Ballet de Lorraine; LUMBER- SUNY, and since graduation, he has per- company, Crossman Dans(c)e, looks at Yard, MASS MoCA/Jacob’s Pillow, Dan- YARD Center for Film and Performing formed repertory from NØA Dance, GREY- identity issues within the frame of formal- space Project, French Institute Alliance Arts; Marble House Project; Gibney Dance ZONE NYC, Gregory Dolbashian, Adam ism and the beauty in vulnerability. His Française’s Crossing the Line Festival, Center’s DiP Residency; Centre Choré- Barruch, Gabrielle Lamb, Shannon Gillen, work had been seen at DanceRoulette, La Festival Rencontres Chorégraphique Inter- graphique National de Franche-Comté Roy Assaf, Aszure Barton, Kyle Abraham, MaMa, the 92nd Street Y, the Museum of nationales de Seine-Saint Denis (France), à Belfort, France (FUSED); Governor’s Brian Brooks, Emily Molnar, Merce Cun- Arts and Design, Gibney Dance, Abrons Artdanthe Festival (France), BEAT Festival, Island through Lower Manhattan Cultural ningham, Trisha Brown, and Bill T. Jones. Arts Center, and The Yard. His work has The Kitchen, La MaMa, Mount Tremper Council’s Swing Space Program; This is his first season performing and been called “compellingly poetic” by The Arts, and Movement Research. Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts working with Kimberly Bartosik. New York Times. He has received support at Arizona State University; Joyce Soho from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Bartosik is a 2017 National Dance Project Artist Residency Program; LaGuardia the Jerome Foundation, Mount Tremper (NDP) Production Grant and Community Performing Arts Center; Jacob’s Pillow; DYLAN CROSSMAN Arts, Topaz Arts, and Norte Maar and was Engagement Fund recipient, a program Kaatsbaan International Dance Center; Performer a 2016 Schonberg Legacy Choreography of the New England Foundation for the Mount Tremper Arts; White Oak Planta- Fellow at The Yard. Crossman also works Arts. She is a 2017 and 2010 MAP Fund tion; and Movement Research. Dylan Crossman grew up in the south of with children as well as adults, introduc- grantee and has also received support for France, received his bachelor’s degree ing them to Merce Cunningham’s creative her choreographic work from the Jerome Bartosik was a member of the Merce Cun- from the Trinity/Laban College of Music ideas and philosophy, in order to facilitate Foundation; FUSED (French-US Exchange ningham Dance Company for nine years and Dance in London, and studied in the social integration and conflict resolution. in Dance), a program of the New England and received a Bessie Award for artistic US at Burklyn Ballet Theatre (VT). He was the teacher/choreographer for Kid Foundation for the Arts in partnership excellence in his work. She was a member Birds, an outreach project which won the with the Cultural Services of the French of the Wally Cardona Quartet and also per- Crossman moved to New York in 2006 2014 French Cultural and Artistic Audac- Embassy and the French American formed in the 2011 re-staging of Robert and has since worked with various ity Award. Crossman Dans(c)e will present Cultural Exchange; Mid-Atlantic Arts Ashley’s 1967 opera, That Morning Thing. choreographers including Brian Brooks, its next work as a part of the Harkness Foundation, USArtists International; New She received her BFA from North Carolina Christopher Williams, Ellen Cornfield, Dance Festival on March 15 & 16, 2019.