Kelly Bartnik

Performer. Choreographer. Director. Teacher. Producer.

Used To

Music video by Rebekah Laur’en (2024)

Directed by Kelly Bartnik

Director of Photography: Ron Johnson / Clear Motion Studios

Cinematographers: Tayjah Brown, Torez Mitchell & Janelle Patillo

Editing by Virginie Danglades

Makeup by Jesse Sanchez

Production Manager / BTS / Wardrobe: Shannon Giles

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

Hotel Wonderland

The first large-scale Immersive Theater show in the Netherlands. This is the premier teaser video.

Original creation by Cinereal Productions.

Remount and Direction by Kelly Bartnik.

Excerpt from This is now. And now. And now.

By Cakeface / Amanda Szeglowski. Featuring performance by Kelly Bartnik.

Sidewise (Trailer)

Conceived and Directed by Kelly Bartnik

Choreographed by Kelly Bartnik with collaboration from the dancers

Director of Photography: Mariana Argueta

Editor: Mariana Argueta

Original Sound Score: Eldar Baruch

Drone Operator: Chris Roll

Created during and with support from Experimental Film Virginia Sponsored by the Northampton Infrastructure Tourism Grant

Communion #19

Concept, curation, and editing: Janessa Clark Dancers: Kelly Bartnik (Brooklyn, NY) & Alexandra Beller (Brooklyn, NY) Composer: Michael Wall (Salt Lake City, UT) All music used with permissions. All rights reserved. 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 pairs of 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 distance. Artist Janessa Clark combines these videos to create a duet which is set to music donated by a composer who is also working remotely. The project will continue to develop over the coming months, even as the Covid-19 lockdowns subside, and will include more dancers and composers from around the world.

Home Training

An Experiential Gallery Show featuring the work of 16 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. 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.

In My Room.

Filmed, edited and performed by Kelly Bartnik during quarantine 2020.

Sound design by John Glover (utilizing the sounds made during 7pm cheers for emergency workers)

this is now. and now. and now.By Cakeface / Amanda SzeglowskiPerformed by Kelly Bartnik, Ali Castro, Ayesha Jordan, Jade Daugherty, Nola Sporn SmithJACK - March 2020.Full video here. — this is now. and now. and now.
By Cakeface / Amanda Szeglowski
Performed by Kelly Bartnik, Ali Castro, Ayesha Jordan, Jade Daugherty, Nola Sporn Smith
JACK - March 2020.
Full video here.

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan - An Immersive Gaming Experience live-streamed on Twitch.

Directed and Written by Kelly Bartnik and Anthony Nikolchev

HERE{after} - a prelude.

Oct 30 - Nov 2, 2019. Tickets available at www.hereatl.com

Fuck/Love: The Poetics of Adoration

Theater at Gibney - April 2019

Conceived & Directed by Kelly Bartnik, in collaboration with the performers

Performed by Alexandra Beller, Donna Costello, Sara Galassini & Penelope McCourty

HERE: Episode 1 Trailer. Video by Tyler Sparks.

Tick Tock was created in residency at Colby College by Director Kelly Bartnik and Set Designer Sarah Stefana Smith. It was performed at the Boston Center for the Arts in Jan 2019 as well as the Colby Fringe Festival in April 2019.

Changes

Choreography by: Kelly Bartnik, Performed by: Kelly Bartnik and Aigner Mizzelle

Cinematography by: Ben Feibleman, Edited by: Virginie Danglades

Music: Changes by H.E.R.

Tick Tock.

A newly-devised work on Colby College Theater/Dance Students.

Performed at the Boston Center for the Arts. January 2019.

Re.

Filmed by Jake Saner. Color correction by Jonah Greenstein

Interview for Sleep No More with Miguel Sagaz.

On Your Marks

Choreography by Kelly Bartnik on members of the VA Repertory Dance Company.

12 hour durational solo performance for one audience member/participant at a time in 20 minute increments. 9am - 9pm.

The Loon by Witness Relocation/Dan Safer. Excerpt. Filmed by Kaz Philips.

Asheville School Residency - Frankenstein.

Performed by Emily Cargill & Dancers. This excerpt from the evening length Slit is choreographed by Kelly Bartnik. Other contributing choreographers not shown here include Emily Cargill, Erik Thurmond and Kathleen Wessel. 2016.

In Light of the Day. Performed by RVA Dance Collective.

Behold/en. Conceived and Performed and Edited by Kelly Bartnik.

Crossing performed by JMU's VA Repertory Dance Company.

Choreography and performance by Kelly Bartnik. Directed by Geoffrey Ehrlich and Dena Ghieth. Shot and edited by Geoffrey Ehrlich. Produced by Gk1. Music: "Breathe Me" from the album Colour the Small One by Sia. Special thanks to Michael Wienick and Joe Cecchini.

Choreographed and Performed by Kelly Bartnik. Dance Theater Workshop 2005.

But Not For Me. Choreographed by Kelly Bartnik. Performed by Alicia White and Rachel Winneg.

Meathook. Created and performed by Kelly Bartnik. Music by Wil Gillfillian. Filmed by Geoffrey Ehrlich.

the no piece. Choreographed by Kelly Bartnik and performed at Joyce Soho. Forgive the quality of the video.

Still. Choreography by Kelly Bartnik.

Performed by the students of BAXCo.

Performed by BaxCo - the teen repertory company at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Original Choreography by Kelly Bartnik and Beth Bradford. Re-staged by Kelly Bartnik.