Bridgman/Packer Dance
CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATER PRESENTS Bridgman/Packer Dance Double Expose and Under the Skin
photo by Shannon C. MacDowell
April 23 & 24, 2010, 8:30 pm Jarson-Kaplan Theater, Aronoff Center for the Arts Tickets to Contemporary Dance Theater’s presentation of Bridgman/Packer Dance are $27 & $22; $17 students & seniors; ETA member benefits apply. Tickets may be purchased at the Aronoff Center Ticket Office at (513) 621-2787 or on-line at www.cincinnatiarts.org.
“An ingenious trompe l’oeil fusion of physical and video image bodies…merged and then disappeared with magical and fascinating suddenness.” - New York Times Bridgman/Packer Dance. Acclaimed for blasting the duet form into a magically populated stage where image and reality collide, Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer’s catapulting partnering, deep sensuality, and surprising humor give their work a physically and theatrically riveting edge.
photo by Nicole Byrne Double Expose is a fantastical exploration of identity, relationship, and the human psyche. Choreographers and performers Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, along with video projections, fill the stage with a variety of personalities. Blending live camera, animation, and prerecorded city scenes, Bridgman and Packer create multi-layered perspectives and surreal mindscapes that bounce the viewer between the living present and virtual existence. Double Expose is the culmination of work done during Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer’s Guggenheim Fellowship and takes their integration of live performance and video technology to a new level. Collaborators include filmmaker Peter Bobrow, composer Ken Field, lighting designer Frank DenDanto III, and animator Karen Aqua.
photo by Lisa Levart
In Under the Skin, the performers' bodies and costumes become projection screens creating a morphing and redefining of identities. Bridgman and Packer interchange with their ever multiplying virtual selves to reveal hidden psychological depths. The original score of resounding horns and striking rhythms was created by composer/saxophonist Ken Field.
This project is supported by the National Performance Network. Contemporary Dance Theater is an NPN partner of the National Performance Network (NPN). This project is made possible in part by support from the NPN Performance Residency Program. Major contributors of NPN include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), the MetLife Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. Contemporary Dance Theater's 2009-10 season supporters include the Otto M. Budig Family Foundation (Season Support); Ohio Arts Council (Operating Support), The National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency) (Season Support), the Fine Arts Fund (Operating Support), the Greater Cincinnati Foundation's Endowment Fund (presentations at the Aronoff), The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation, Anonymous, as well as individual advertisers and contributors.
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