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Bridgman/Packer Events
Fri, Jan 29, 2010 2:17 PM by Ryan Jones
Join the Ordway as we welcome dance company Bridgman/Packer Dance to our McKnight Theatre during the first week of February. They will be developing a new work, Double Expose, which they will return to perform during Ordway’s 2010-2011 season as a part of our Target® World Music and Dance Series!
Upcoming events…
Partnering Dance Master Class
Monday, February 1
7pm – 8:30pm
Roy Wilkins Studio #1
Downtown St. Paul (entrance on 5th Street, between the Excel Energy Center and Ordway Stage Door)Attendance is $10; please contact Amy Miller with questions and to RSVP at (651)282-3017 or amiller@ordway.org
The popular Partnering Workshop transmits Bridgman/Packer’s unique approach to partnering for beginner 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.
Lecture and Demonstration
Friday, February 5
7 – 8:30pm
McKnight Theatre, Ordway
Short reception to follow in the McKnight Lobby
Attendance is free; please contact Amy Miller with questions at (651)282-3017 or amiller@ordway.org
Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer will share excerpts from their work and examine the relationship of video and live performance from a choreographic point of view. They will explain their creative process through their perspective as dancers, using technology to enhance their work and dance to explore identity, relationships, and personality.
"an astonishing dance/video experience, merging the real and unreal into the surreal." Janet Anderson, Philadelphia City Paper
"a jaw-dropping marvel of sound, film, movement and light… What Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer accomplish through multi-media dance is dynamic, stunning, provocative and occasionally startling… each piece teetering between moment and memory, body and illusion." Anchorage Daily News
For more information about Bridgman/Packer Dance, please visit their website at:
http://www.bridgmanpacker.org/
Posted in Master Classes, Bridgman-Packer
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