Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer's innovative choreography, a highly visual and visceral interaction of live performance and video, explodes the duet form into a magically populated stage where image and reality collide. The intricacies of identity, intimacy and perception are revealed as Bridgman and Packer interact with their own life-size video images. Their bodies and costumes become projection screens allowing for magical transformations while the theater is filled with their breathtaking partnering, raw and sensual physicality, and unexpected humor.
Touring Repertory: Trilogy
Three highly acclaimed works that create a richly textured mix of dance and media: Seductive Reasoning, Memory Bank and Under The Skin.
Each piece has an original musical score, and shows can include live performances by the three composers: Robert Een, Glen Velez, and Ken Field.
The three pieces comprise an evening's performance running 70 minutes plus intermission.
"The most thrilling dance work this reviewer has seen in recent memory..flat-out exhilarating."
Karen Campbell, Boston Globe
"Video projections have seldom been used so adroitly or with such profligate imagination."
Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
"The finest mixed-media dance I have ever seen"
Francis Mason, WQXR, New York Times Radio
"Bridgman and Packer challenge the boundaries of our perception with works that are truly visionary."
Jorge Avalos, Elfaro.net, el primer periódico digital latinoamericana
Contact: Michelle Coe at 212.278.8111 x308
Email: michellec(at)pentacle.org
2008 tour dates:
Jan 17-20: Alabama Dance Festival, Birmingham, AL
Jan 24-27: OutNorth, Anchorage, AK
Feb 18-29: University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
Mar 24-28: The Flynn Center, Burlington, VT
April 5: Riverspace, Nyack, NY
Nov 30: Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
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