Bridgman/Packer Dance
2-week Teaching Residency
February 18th - 29th, 2008

Funded by:
Roser Guest Artist Fund
Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities (GCAH)
Arts and Cultural Enrichment Fund
CU, Department of Theatre and Dance

Activities free and open to the Public

• Lecture Demonstration:
  Performance of "Under the Skin" followed by a Q & A
  Location: Irey Theatre, CU Boulder Campus
  Time: 5:30 PM Friday February 22, 2008
• Lecture Demonstration:
  Performance of "Crowd" followed by a Q & A (repertory piece set on CU Dance Majors)
  Location:
  Irey Theatre, CU Boulder Campus
  Time: 5:00 PM Friday February 29, 2008

Contact:
Bob Shannon
(Robert.Shannon@colorado.edu)

http://www.bridgmanpacker.org/

Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer have collaborated in choreography and performance since 1978. Their innovative work with video and live performance has been acclaimed for exploding the duet form into a magically populated stage where image and reality collide. Their breathtaking and catapulting partnering, deep sensuality, and surprising humor give their work a physically and theatrically riveting edge. In New York City, their work has been presented by The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, City Center Fall For Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center, Danspace Project, Performance Space 122, Central Park's Summerstage, Dance New Amsterdam, and Dancing in the Streets.

Bridgman/Packer Dance is a 2007 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a New England Foundation for the Arts Expeditions Touring Grant. Bridgman and Packer are also recipients of numerous National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowships, NEA Dance Company Grants and Choreography Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. They have also been awarded five " First Light " Commissions from Dance Theater Workshop in NYC with funding from the Jerome Foundation, a Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative with support from the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, a choreography commission from the 92nd Street Y New Works in Dance Fund, a commission from Dance New Amsterdam, and two commissioning awards from the National Performance Network’s Creation Fund. Bridgman/Packer Dance was a recipient of a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts BUILD Grant, and they were selected as 2005-06 Dance Theater Workshop Digital Fellows.
As a duet company, they have toured throughout the United States, performing in festivals, art centers, and universities including:
Spoleto Festival USA
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
The Florida Dance Festival
Dance Umbrella in Boston
The Maine Festival
Dance St. Louis
Dance Cleveland
Bates Dance Festival
Philadelphia's Annenberg Center

Under the auspices of the National Performance Network, they have been presented by the Walker Art Center/M.D.A. in Minneapolis, The Dancers' Collective in Atlanta, The Dance Place in Washington, DC, the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, Columbia College in Chicago, and the Contemporary Dance Theater in Cincinnati.
Bridgman/Packer have been guest artists at over 100 universities including New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Ohio State University, Arizona State University, and the University of Utah. Bridgman and Packer have appeared abroad in Scotland, France, Ireland, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore, and China. In the summer of 2004, they toured Central America as part of Arts International's Performing Americas Project, in conjunction with the National Performance Network and La Red de Promotores Culturales de Latinamerica y el Caribe.
In 2002 and 2003 their work was featured on Metroarts/Thirteen, WNET's cable arts program for the New York City metropolitan area. They were featured in Dance Magazine's May 2006 issue on Great Partnerships.