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Jen Rosenblit

She is a 2015-16 Movement Research artist-in-residence and a recipient of a 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Emerging Choreographer.  

Rosenblit is also an inaugural recipient of THE AWARD, a 2014-2015 workspace artist through LMCC, a 2013 Fellow at Insel Hombroich (Germany), a recipient of the 2012 Grant to Artists from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a 2009 Fresh Tracks artist (Dance Theater Workshop). Rosenblit has received commissions from The Kitchen (a Natural dance, 2014, Bessie Award), New York Live Arts (In Mouth, 2012), Danspace Project (When Them, 2010), and Issue Project Room (Pastor Pasture, 2013).

Rosenblit’s new work, Clap Hands, is supported by residencies at Tanzhaus (Zurich), The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta, GA) and The Chinati Foundation (Marfa, TX), is a part of MoMA PS1 Greater New York, and will premiere April 2016 at The Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn,  co-presented with New York Live Arts. Rosenblit is also currently making Swivel Spot, a companion solo for Clap Hands to premiere Winter 2017 at The Kitchen in NYC. Rosenblit has worked as a performer and collaborator with artists including Young Jean Lee, Ryan McNamara, Yvonne Meier, Sasa Asentic, A.K. Burns, Kerry Downey, Anne Imhof, Miguel Gutierrez, and Simone Aughterlony. Recent works focus on an improvisational approach to choreographic thought, locating ways of being together amidst impossible spaces.