Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Jen Rosenblit

Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Born 1983, Norway, ME

Choreographer, Performer

Of late, my work is concerned not only with the things around it but also the things it can't reach or imagine. Anarchy, feminism and the experience of embodiment stand guard around the making of my dances. My process of making, determining, clarifying, teaching, naming and colonizing ideas are in direct conflict with a body that must explore the uncomfortable, leak privacies and negotiate queerness all the while harnessing form without dictating it. I find the desperation between fleeting tragedies and bizarre humor to be a very active location for the body, and bodies in relation to one another. I depart from preciousness and sentimentality on a conceptual level in hopes of locating a more potent relevance for how we read relational aesthetics and objects in space and time. I am concerned with detaching and reapplying visual histories, how time and situational tendencies can assume familiar outcomes and how one thing tolerating the next becomes a rule for how we occupy time. My concepts and movement structures at times dissolve each other. I am reaching for a more heightened subtlety of experience by engaging sensation with visual information. I'm not sure if my work is about anything more than the absurdity of the body. I'm building space for the viewer to experience indentation-for eyes that find molding and packaging-and how revealing (versus concealing) of utility is as important as a love story.

2005 B.A., Hampshire College

Teacher at CLASSCLASSCLASS, New York, NY

House Manager, Danspace Project, New York, NY

WORKS

2012 In Mouth, New York Live Arts, New York, NY

2011 Salivate if you could, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY

2010 When Them, Danspace Project, New York, NY

2009 Ever last and So Badly, Fresh Tracks, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY

2008 That Sick Sound, Movement Research at Judson Church, New York, NY

2008 UnderBelly and Superfly Afterthoughts, Dixon Place, New York, NY

2007 Wood and Pearl Sequence, Dixon Place, New York, NY

2006 Curb, Danspace Project, New York, NY

GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS

2011 Solo in Azione Residency at Sudio 28, Milan, Italy

2010 Dance Theater Workshop "Fresh Tracks Series" Artist

2010 Dance Theater Workshop Suitcase Fund Award