FUZZY BULLDOZER

Overview

We’ve been waiting for this special moment, and we are all finally together. But we’ve waited too long to face you. You’re not ready. Are we? We need you to come with us. We can’t do it without you. We need you to believe it. What do you say? FUZZY BULLDOZER is a selves portrait in an evening-length experimental dance. It is (im)patiently waiting, optimistic, cushily pushing because it wants what it wants. And it wants you to be part of that, so we ask without asking; we wile with smiles. It’s not nearly as fun alone. In coming together, we collectively have the opportunity to consider our own actions, reactions, and associations to these asks for help when we don’t need it and help when we do. But maybe it’s too much.

Development support for FUZZY BULLDOZER was provided by Mondo Bizarro Presents.

About the Artist

Making work together since 2018, Kelly Bond and Ellery Burton are experimental dance and performance artists based in New Orleans. Kelly is a choreographer, director, performer, teacher and mother. She serves as an adjunct professor of dance at Tulane University and holds an MFA in interdisciplinary dance performance from Tulane as well as an MA in European dance-theater practice from Laban in London which she attended as a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholar. Her recent works include Dancing with Myself (2020), Escapade (2019), Jean & Terry: Your Guides Through Dark, Light, and Nebulous (2016) with Mel Krodman, and Colony (2012) also with Mel Krodman. Ellery is an experimental performance artist and choreographer who has collaborated with various artists including Skin Horse Theater Company, Maritza Mercado-Narcisse and the Narcisse Movement Project, and has showcased four solo works. Ellery has also worked with Shannon Stewart on several projects, including RELATIVES, which premiered at the Definitive Figures Festival and Roar Berlin. Since 2018, she has been collaborating with Kelly, whom she considers her performance soulmate. Currently, Ellery is pursuing a master's degree in Occupational Therapy at LSU Health Sciences in New Orleans.