Family Dance & Community Engagement Workshop

Presented in conjunction with Kimberly Bartosik’s bLUr, featured at L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line festival, this workshop aims to inspire reflection and community-building through physical movement. By blending both physical and imaginative exercises, children and families are invited to explore their unique histories, memories, and life values, while encouraging the power of community. All experience levels are welcome —whether dance and movement are lifelong passions or exciting new discoveries.

Developed and led by bLUr Artistic Director/Choreographer Kimberly Bartosik and dancer/educator Burr Johnson, the workshop illuminates the values of compassion, empathy, forgiveness, and trust. Constructed around questions asked in the creation of the piece, it connects the physical and emotional by asking: How do we construct support systems for ourselves and others? How do we know when to push into personal and life challenges and when to run away? The primary workshop goal is to remind our bodies of the power of trust when we place our weight—physical, emotional, spiritual—in someone else’s hands, and that even if we fall, the ground is not far away.