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Trilogy
Trilogy – (Seductive Reasoning, Memory Bank, Under The Skin) explores the intricacies of identity, gender, perception, and intimacy through Bridgman/Packer’s choreographic concept of “video partnering”–the highly visceral and visually arresting integration of live performance and video technology. Through interaction with their life-size video images and the use of bodies and costumes as projection screens, Bridgman and Packer blur the lines between image and reality, distort identity, and reveal hidden multiple layers of consciousness. Composers Robert Een, Ken Field, and Glen Velez have created original musical scores, and shows can include their live performances.
“The most thrilling dance work this reviewer has seen in recent memory…flat-out exhilarating.”
-The Boston Globe
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Double Expose
Double Expose is a fantastical, raucous, sensual exploration of the psyche, identity, and relationship. With a nod to classical American cinema, choreographer/performers Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, along with a multitude of their video counterparts, embody a range of archetypal personae. Blending live camera, animation, and prerecorded urban settings, Bridgman and Packer create multi-layered perspectives and surreal mindscapes amid a highly sensual alchemy of the live and the virtual. Original live music score is by composer Ken Field, video by Peter Bobrow and animation by Karen Aqua.
“Witty, sexy, and surreal…”
-The New Yorker
“You may marvel at the effects achieved through technological wizardry, but you’re also amused, charmed, or disturbed by the ways in which two people’s images and dreams and memories of each other fly around like shadows in the wind.”
-The Village Voice
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Voyeur
Voyeur will push the company’s
exploraton
into
new
territory choreographically, thematically,
and technologically. With
the
iconic imagery
of
the
paintings
of
Edward Hopper
as a
point
of
departure, the work will
look
at
the
role
of
the
audience
as
voyeur,
witnessing fragments
of
private
moments
and
inner lives. In
a
departure
from
their
repertory
to
date,
the work
will be designed as a performance installation
for
museums,
galleries
and
alternative
spaces.
It
will
incorporate
a
multi‐surfaced, three-dimensional
set
structure
that,
with
use
of
video projections,
will
continually
evoke
imagery
of
both
spatial
and
psychological
enclosures. The
set
design
will
amplify
the voyeuristic nature of the work
and
give
a
multi‐dimensional
context
to the live performance.While
the
performers
will
be
seen
through
the
windows
and
doors,
they
will
also
be simultaneously
recorded
inside
of
the set
and
their
images
projected
onto
the
outside
of
the structure.Through
this
specific
use
of
the
projections,
multiple
perspectives
are
created,
the performers
merging
and colliding
with
the
video imagery. With
precisely timed lighting, the live‐captured
images
will
unexpectedly appear and
disappear
from
the
projected
scenes,
conjuring isolation
in relationship
and
juxtaposing
intimacy
with
separateness.
Stream‐of‐consciousness
sequences
will
transform
at
key
moments
into
the
realism,
stillness, light,
and
specificity
of
time
and
place
found
in
Hopper’s
work.
Hopper’s
actual
imagery
will
not be
used. References to
his
work
will
be
made
through
video
imagery
shot
on
location
in places where
Hopper
painted (Nyack,
NY;
New
York
City; Portland,
ME
and
vicinity). Voyeur
will
feature
Bridgman/Packer’s
first
collaboration
with
Grammy,
Tony,
and
Drama
Desk Award
winning
sound
designer,
Scott Lehrer. Mr.
Lehrer will
be
creating
a
sound
score
that evokes
the
continual
shifting
of
environments
and
scenes.
In
addition to
Bridgman
and
Packer
as
choreographers
and
performers, the creative team
for
this
project
also
includes
their longtime
collaborators,
filmmaker
Peter Bobrow
and
lighting
designer
Frank DenDanto III. By
design,
Voyeur
will
offer
the
flexibility
of
performance
in
traditional
and
non‐traditional
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Dance Partnering Workshop
This popular partnering workshop introduces Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer’s unique approach to partnering for beginning through advanced performers. The class is non-gender specific, emphasizes the release and ease as well as the strength of partnering, and builds to develop exhilarating and risk-taking partnering in duet, trio and group forms. This can be taught as a one-time workshop or as a series of classes. |
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Dance Technique Class
A class that emphasizes breath, weight, dynamic physicality and exhilarating movement. The work uncovers and strengthens the connections in the body, harnessing the body’s power and momentum. Focus is on the connection to the floor, clarity of intent, and the building of performance skills. |
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LIVE PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO TECHNOLOGY:
Laboratory Workshop
This workshop examines the relationship of video and live performance from a choreographic point of view. The class explores how video technology can become an integral part of the performance and the creative process. Participants work on short choreographic projects. While a 5-7 day residency is recommended, this content can also be offered as a 1 1/2 hour lecture-demonstration. |
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SCHOOL ASSEMBLY PROGRAM:
Making Dances, Making Video
Bridgman/Packer offers an accessible and exciting school assembly program which gives students first-hand experience of dance, video & performance and a window into the creative process. Bridgman/Packer perform excerpts from their works which highlight their movement, humor, and expressiveness through an integration of live performance and video. They conclude with “Make a Dance,” where the audience helps the artists choreograph a dance on the spot and student volunteers join the dancers on stage.
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Choreographic Residency
The company creates an original work on professional or student companies that incorporates Bridgman/Packer’s catapulting partnering, theatrical contexts, and innovative use of video technology.
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Additional Workshops
Additional workshops are available and can include Master Classes with award-winning musician collaborators (Ken Field, Glen Velez and Robert Een). The Company also does Choreographic Commissions and Repertory Workshops with dance companies and university dance departments. |
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PHOTOS
Background: Paul B. Goode, Insets from top left: Eduardo Patino, Vertical top to bottom: Kelly Gotlesman, Paul B. Goode, Eduardo Patino |