First three Episodes are available online. Click here to watch.
Currently working toward my MFA in Choreography. Program directed by Roseanne Spradlin.
Kelly Bartnik
Performer. Choreographer. Director. Teacher. Producer.
Kelly Bartnik is the recipient of the 2023 / 2024 Winter Choreographic Residency at The Nautilus Chamber in San MIguel de Allende, Mexico.
Hotel Wonderland is the first large scale Immersive Theater show in Amsterdam. Official opening tbd due to Covid restrictions.
Lead Creative Team:
✧ Billy Bell (Co-director & choreographer of Hotel Wonderland)
✧ Devin Compton Guzmán (Co-director & writer of Hotel Wonderland)
✧ Kelly Bartnik (Remount Creator and Director )
✧ Ali Castro (Associate Director of Hotel Wonderland)
✧ Lyndie Raymond (Scenic Supervisor at Hotel Wonderland)
Porch Light. Dance Camera West Festival Selection.
Created with support by Experimental Film Virginia.
Written, Directed and Edited by Ned Farr. Cinematography by Alexandre Naufel. Produced by Cat Rider.
Choreographed by Kelly Bartnik and Mya McClellan.
Home Training is an Experiential Gallery Show featuring the work of 17 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. Home spaces transformed into schools, childcare centers, studios, and film sets in service of the necessary, often unpaid labor female artists engage in to make and sustain their craft. How have women artists responded to the national conversation surrounding “essential” work and workers? What has shifted to accommodate new creative spaces, closer quarters, isolating circumstances, diminishing funding, and employment/industry instability? 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.
Communion (2020)
Communion is an experimental video art 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.
Conceived, curated, and edited by Janessa Clark
For further information, full trailer and videos, visit https://www.janessaclark.com/communion
A fundraiser performance for Immersive Theatre workers. See full playbill here.
Tickets on sale now for Portaleza. Part of the Digital WoW Festival at La Jolla Playhouse. Purchase tickets here.
Interview with Kelly Bartnik on artists dealing with Coronavirus pandemic. Click here.
Kelly Bartnik will be speaking on the panel “What is Immersive?”. January 25, 2020 at 10am in the Nassau Room.
November 10, 2019 - Live-streamed on Twitch.
Directed by Kelly Bartnik and Anthony Nikolchev.
Las Quinceaneras. Created and Directed by David Reynoso. Co-Director: Careena Melia. Movement Director: Kelly Bartnik
Wow Festival 2019. La Jolla Playhouse.
With performances by Kelly Bartnik, Nia Calloway, Claire Jamison, & Ianne Fields Stewart. Get your tickets Here.
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The Unbrunch. Saturdays in January 2018. Visit the website for additional information.
A New Play by Ben Gassman
Directed by Ran Xia
INDEPENDENT STUDY traces the unlikely friendship of a first-generation college student and her former professor, each struggling privately with a brother's radical choice and the onslaught of the internet’s opinions. The play grapples with tribal allegiance and tribal violence and with digital hate and its repercussions in physical space. Simultaneously it explores the limits of teaching and the burning insistence of the best students to make classroom ideas manifest in the world.
Produced by Elisabeth Ng
Production Design by An-Lin Dauber
Lighting Design by Elizabeth M. Stewart
Sound Design by Ran Xia
Stage Manager Gabrielle Giacomo
Cast:
Andrea Negrete
Kelly Bartnik
Sean Hinckle
Alphonso Walker Jr.
Yair Ben-Dor
Finn Kilgore
Sharlee J Taylor
Gareth Tidball
The Experimental Works Program at Triskelion Arts presents:
SEX PLAY by The Pack
Written by CHARLY EVON SIMPSON
Developed in collaboration with the cast and creative team
Directed by JENNY REED
Dramaturgy & Intimacy Direction by SAMANTHA SHEPPARD
Choreography by KELLY BARTNIK
Oct 25 - 27, 2018 at 7PM
Tickets: $16 in advance / $20 at the door - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-play-tickets-47139635920
Nic, Serena, Paloma, and Ella are… acquainted. They are individually charismatic, intelligent, vulnerable, curious, and queer. They are pleasure-seeking. And they are terrified. SEX PLAY follows their intertwining lives and relationships as they navigate the complexities of contemporary dating rituals; unsolicited advice from friends; the erotic intimacy of fantasy exploration; and the joys—and anxieties—of ASKING FOR WHAT WE WANT.
CAST: Kelly Bartnik (Nic), Nia Calloway (Ella), Ianne Fields Stewart (Serena), Claire Jamison (Paloma)
CLUBBED THUMB presents
PLANO
written by Will Arbery
directed by Taylor Reynolds
with: Brendan Dalton, Crystal Finn, Susannah Flood, Ryan King, Cesar J. Rosado, Mary Shultz and Miriam Silverman.
Daniel Zimmerman (set design), Stephanie Levin (costume design), Isabella Byrd (lighting design), Mark Van Hare (sound design), Kelly Bartnik (choreography) and Kristy Bodall (production stage manager)
Tonight, and later, and earlier, three sisters (no, not those ones) are stricken with a series of strange plagues. Let’s talk about family nightmares. I mean, uh, memories.
Waking La Llorana at La Jolla Playhouse's WoW Festival 2017
October 19-22.
Click here for further information.
Performing in Waking La Llorana, directed by David Reynoso and Careena Melia. August 19, 20, 26 and 27th.
THE LOON
by Witness Relocation (featuring Robert M. Johanson)
At Abrons Arts Center, Oct 13-15, 20-22, 27-29, 2016
A knock-down-drag-out, dance/theater show based on 1. an educational record about loons; 2 sociologist Erving Goffman; 3. the western house; 4. late night parties that last until the next morning.
Performing with Donna Costello as Scotch & Soda. June 10th. Click the picture for the link.
Upcoming in Atlanta.
3L Webseries. Coming Soon.