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Music Video for Rebekh Laur’en - 2023

Directed by Kelly Bartnik

Featuring: Rebekah Laur’en and Kelly Bartnik

Director of Photography: Ron Johnson / Clear Motion Studios

Cinematographers: Tayjah Brown, Torez Mitchell & Janelle Patillo

Makeup: Jesse Sanchez

Production Manager / BTS: Shannon Giles

Background Extras: Whitley Davis, Christina Sheler, Canmeron Tucker & Brandi Wynn



HOTEL WONDERLAND

2022- Zandaam, Netherlands

Produced by Tristan Hupe, Raymond Klompsma, Tristan Hupe, Michel Groenenstijn

Lead Creative Team:  Cinereal Productions (Billy Bell, Devin Compton, Ali Castro, Lyndie Raymond), Tristan Hupe

Resident Director: Kelly Bartnik

Asst Director:  Gunnar de Jong

Performed by:  Louis Butelli, Kanea Blokland, Evelyn Chen, Mylene d'Anjou, Sanne den Besten, Matteo Franco, Miruna Gabor, Valerie Jane, Ginger Kearns, Adrian Klein, Marie Korbl, Eli Morris, Inge Sonderen, Tamara Markus, Pepijn van de Weerd, Cherif Zaouali

Sound Score:  Renger Koning



Behind the scenes photos from the filming of Sidewise during Experimental Film Virginia.

Photos by Phillip Spohn. Performers: Mya McClellan and Alex Swader. Conceived and directed by Kelly Bartnik.

Director of Photography and Editor: Mariana Argueta. Original Score by Eldar Baruch.




COMMUNION, DUET #19

with Kelly Bartnik & Alexandra Beller

Communion is a BESSIE Award nominated experimental screendance response to the isolation and uncertainty we are all facing as artists and humans in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. Because dancers can no longer breathe together, touch, or share the experience of movement within the physical studio, Communion invites 40 dancers, separated by physical distance and the pandemic, into a digital space to commune together.

Each unique duet is created from videos by two different dancers who are separated by cities, countries, and sometimes continents. Artist Janessa Clark combines these videos to create virtual duets which are set to music donated by a composer also collaborating remotely.

Conceived, curated, and edited by Janessa Clark

Performed by:

Ivy Baldwin (Putnam Valley, New York), Julian Barnett (Burlington, Vermont), Kelly Bartnik (Brooklyn, New York), Kimberly Bartosik (Brooklyn, New York), Alexandra Beller (Brooklyn, New York), Gerald Casel (Santa Cruz, California), Janessa Clark (Brooklyn, New York), David Dorfman (New London, Connecticut), Jeanine Durning (Stockholm, Sweden), Doug Elkins (New York, New York), Sharon Estacio (Florence, Italy), Ori Flomin (New York, New York), Helena Franzen (Stockholm, Sweden), Wendell Gray II (Atlanta, Georgia), Jasmine Hearn (occupied land of the Karankawa and Atakpe people, Texas), Peiling Kao (Honolulu, Hawaii), Catherine Kirk (unceded land of Lenape and Canarsie peoples, New York), Alice Klock (Whidbey Island, Washington), Joanna Kotze (Brooklyn, New York), Leslie Kraus (Norman, Oklahoma), Benoît Lachambre (Montreal, Canada), Catie Leasca (Brooklyn, New York), Rosalynde LeBlanc (Los Angeles, California), aaron lewis (Highland Park, New Jersey), Jordan Lloyd (Brooklyn, NY), Gesine Moog (Stockholm, Sweden), Yutaka Nakata (Lille, France), Jennifer Nugent (Brooklyn, New York), Omagbitse Omagbemi (Berlin, Germany), Laura Peterson (Brooklyn, New York), Kendra Portier (College Park, Maryland), Jess Pretty (Brooklyn, New York), Kumar Ravi (Delhi, India), Dan Safer (Preston Hollow, New York), Gus Solomons, Jr. (New York, New York), Colleen Thomas (New York, New York), Saúl Ulerio (New York, New York), Guy Whitney (New York, New York), Takahiro Yamamoto (Portland, Oregon), and Jessie Young (Port Angeles, Washington)

Communion Duet Composers:

George Baldovin , Fatrin Krajka, Tim ‘Love’ Lee, Anne Müller, Major Andres Scurlock, David Shane Smith, Sxip Shirey, and Michael Wall


this is now. and now. and now.

2020 - JACK, Brooklyn, NY

written + directed by Amanda Szeglowski
choreographed by Amanda Szeglowski in collaboration with the company
performed by Kelly Bartnik, Ali Castro, Jade Daugherty, Christine Farrell, Ayesha Jordan, and Nola Sporn Smith
composed by Prism House
lighting design by Amanda K. Ringger
set design by Aviva Novick
run time 1 hour
photos by Maria Baranova

Amanda Szeglowski is a 2020 Bessie honoree for "Outstanding Production" for this is now, and now, and now.

HERE{after} - an Immersive Theatre pop-up performance.

Photos by Christina Massad

Created and Directed by Kelly Bartnik and Kathleen Wessel.

Featuring performances by Aaron Glaize, Lamia Dingle, Ivory Lloyd, Tate Rehklau, Patrick Otsuki and Monique Wimby.

HomeTraining is an Experiential Gallery Show featuring the work of 18 female and female-identifying artists working in a diverse range of mediums including performance, sculpture, textiles, painting, photography, short film, and experiential soundscape.  Over the last year and a half, the pandemic has forced more than 5 million women out of the American workforce, and their labor participation rate has plummeted to a level not seen since 1988.  HomeTraining is an exploration of the work created when the convergence of home and artistic lives cultivates new ways of thinking, making, and doing.

Curated and produced by the team behind HEREafter, Episodes 1 and 2: Kelly Bartnik and Kathleen Wessel.

Featured Artists: Siana Altiise, Kelly Bartnik, Anna Bracewell Crowder, Maritza Cayo, Lamia Dingle, Hannah Ehrlich, Amanda Her, Katie Kearns, Kate Kosek, Hanna Newman, Aquilah “KHILA” Ohemeng, Ivory Lloyd, Luna LotusLove, Amelia Reiser, Kourtney Stone, Danielle Swatzie, Thulani Vereen, Kathleen Wessel

Portaleza

by David Israel Reynoso / Optika Moderna

2020 - Produced by La Jolla Playhouse. Performed by Kelly Bartnik , Lamia Dingle, Careena Melia, Robert Najarian, Patrick Otsuki, Jennifer Paredes, Nicholas Ponting, Fatima Wardak

Jack Ryan Season 2 Immersive Promotional Event - 2019

In collaboration with Twitch and Amazon

Written and Directed by Kelly Bartnik and Antony Nikolchev

HERE.   An Immersive Series conceived and directed by Kelly Bartnik.   Photos by Tyler Sparks. Featuring Donna Costello, Zach Martens, Jeffrey Lyons and Tori Sparks.

 

 

Re: 

A 12 hour durational work for one participant at a time in 20 minute intervals.   Photos by Maria Baranova-Suzuki.


Fuck / Love: The Poetics of Adoration

Presented by Gibney Dance with support from the Jerome Foundation. Photos by Maria Baranova-Suzuki and Scott Shaw.



Sex Play. Written by Charly Evon Simpson. Directed by The Pack Theater.

Ice Factory Festival, New Ohio Theater. Kelly Bartnik as Nic. Photos by Valerie Terranova.

Crave. A photography series conceived and shot by Shannon Giles / Miru Images featuring Kelly Bartnik.



Tick Tock. An original work devised with students at Colby College and performed at the Boston Center for the Arts. Directed by Kelly Bartnik. Set design by Sarah Stefana Smith.

Photos by Melissa Ballard.

Independent Study, Written by Ben Gassman, Directed by Ran Xia

The Tank, Nov 2018. Photos by Asya Gorovits. Kelly Bartnik as the Professor.

PLANO, written by Will Arbery. Directed by Taylor Reynolds.  Choreography by Kelly Bartnik

Cast: Brendan Dalton, Crystal Finn, Susannah Flood, Ryan King, Cesar J. Rosado, Mary Shultz, Miriam Silverman.   

Waking La Llorona

2017 - Optika Moderna

Created, directed and designed by David Reynoso

Careena Melia (Co-Director), Santiago Iacinti (Assistant Director), Antony Januzzi (Lighting Design), Jaymee Ngernwichit (Associate Costume Design), Melissa Ballard (Stage Manager), Stephanie Kwik (Assistant Stage Manager), Veronica Murray (Assistant Stage Manager), Performers: Jennifer Paredes, Rob Najarian, Lorena Santana, Kelly Bartnik, Isis Avalos. Location: Bread and Salt, San Diego. Project made possible by The Creative Catalyst of The San Diego Foundation with support of The Old Globe Theater. Presented at La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival 2017 with an extended run made possible by KickStarter funding.

 

 

Performing in The Loon by Witness Relocation.   Abrons Arts Center.

Photos by Maria Baranova-Suzuki.

Rehearsal Process.   Photos by Maria Baranova with Kelly Bartnik and Aigner Mizzelle.  

 

Mycenaean.

BAM Harvey - 2006. Written, Directed and Produced by Carl Hancock Rux. Performed by Helga Davis, Carl Hancock Rux, Patrice Johnson, Tony Torn, David Barlow, Ana Perea, Darius Mannino, Celia Gorman, Christalyn Wright, Marcelle Lashley, Niles Ford, Paz Tanjuaquio, Kelly Bartnik


Prey.  Cora Dance.

Choreography by Shannon Hummel.   Photos by Richard Finkelstein.

 

 

 

On Your Marks.  Choreography by Kelly Bartnik

VA Repertory Dance Company with Katherine Maloney and Cassandra Stern.  

Photos by Richard Finkelstein.

Birding

Woolly Mammoth Theater, Washington DC - 2010

Conceived, Choreographed & Performed by Kelly Bartnik and Heather Lundy

Sleep No More

American Repertory Theater - 2009, Old Lincoln School, Brookline MA

Created, Directed and Choreographed by Punchdrunk

Cast: Phil Atkins, Robert Najarian, Eric Jackson-Bradley, Jeffrey Lyon, Luke Murphy, Thomas Kee, Tori Sparks, Alli Ross, Jordan Morely, Stephanie Nightingale, Kelly Bartnik, Careena Melia, Poornima Kirby, Hope Youngblood Heck, Alexander LaFrance, Annie Goodchild & Hayley Jane Soggin

 

Elsewhere. Cora Dance. Choreography by Shannon Hummel.

Performed by Kelly Bartnik, Julie Betts, Lisa Bleyer, Galois Cohen, Donna Costello

Photos by Steven Schreiber.

 

All That is Seen.  Choreography by Kelly Bartnik.

Performed by Kelly Bond, Lauren Bain, Pinling Lin.

 

 

 

Infatuation.  

Choreographed & Performed by Kelly Bartnik.

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But Not For Me.  Choreographed by Kelly Bartnik.

Performed by Alicia White & Rachel Winneg.

 

 

 

the no piece.  Joyce Soho.

Choreographed by Kelly Bartnik

 

 

 

Innocence.  GK1 Productions.  Photos by Kamau Mucoki.

Choreographed by Kelly Bartnik.  Performed by Kelly Bartnik & Gina Kohler.

 

 

 

In Light of the Day with RVA Dance Collective. 

Residency and Performance.  Dogtown Dance Theater, Richmond. 

Choreographed by Kelly Bartnik. Photos by Mike Keeling and Dave Parrish.

 

 

 

Slit with Emily Cargill & Dancers.

Choreography by Kelly Bartnik, Emily Cargill, Kathleen Wessel and Erik Thurmond. 

 

 

 

Breathe Me.   Photos by Kamau Mucoki.