Created by
Renée Jaworski, Matt Kent
in collaboration with Marlon Feliz and Hannah Klinkman

Music: Andre Heller, Michael Gordon, Elisapie Isaac, Eva Reiter, Meredith Monk
Sound Design: Matt Kent  
Costume Design: Márion Talán de la Rosa
Lighting Design: Diane Ferry Williams

Bloodlines was supported by the Thompson Family Foundation with additional support from the Tracy Lukoff New Work Fund.

ABOUT BLOODLINES

Bloodlines is a women’s duet, a rare gem in Pilobolus’s 50+ year repertory, which explores the natural progression of life as children come to support their predecessors. 

As artistic directors Matt Kent and Renée Jaworski each found themselves in the “sandwich years,” the time in which individuals experience generational reciprocity, they realized many of their peers were entering the same cycle and sought to explore it on the stage. 

Sculptural in form, highlighting balance and strength, and capturing the essence of life’s evolving roles and everlasting cycles, Bloodlines delves into the beautiful complexities of role reversals that are not just inevitable, but also enriching, as they reveal the unfading bonds that link generations. 

For Jaworski, the company’s first Executive Director with a dance background, the choreographic inspiration drew on extremely personal experiences—a family member’s hospitalization—that illuminated the cycle of transition and transformation that both she and her loved one experienced. 

Capturing moments of gratitude, grief, dependence and independence, defiance, nurturing, and love, Bloodlines encapsulates how we must take care of ourselves in order to care for one another, and the bittersweet privilege of having the opportunity to do both.

Image by Jason Hudson