Year: 2010-2011
DanceForce Member: Diana Cherryholmes
Artists: Bridgman/Packer
Community Partner: Town of Huntington
Audience: 440
County: Suffolk
Bridgman/Packer was selected for their innovative use of technology combined with their amazing contemporary dance. They are acclaimed for their innovative work integrating live performance with video technology and they delighted the audience at the Huntington Summer Arts Festival.
Glen Velez & Lori Colter also performed; they are known as TaKaDiMi Duo, and are world renowned for frame drumming and voice integrates world music and jazz stylings. Cotler grew up on Long Island.
Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer’s innovative choreography, a highly visual and visceral interaction of live performance and video, explodes the partnering form into a magically populated stage where image and reality collide. Their latest works explore in depth the themes and concepts engendered by their long-term collaboration: the multiplicity of identity, the paradox of intimacy, the plasticity of gender, and the variability of time. Over the past seven years, they have developed a broader artistic medium for these ideas, stretching the boundaries of live performance by multiplying, transposing and manipulating their own life-size video images, and integrating these images into their dance. As their performances question what is real and what is image, their catapulting partnering, deep sensuality, and unexpected humor give the work a physically and theatrically riveting edge.
We asked the audience to move in the center of the festival seating area so that they could best view the performance.
Program
1. Glen Velez and Lori Cotler
2. Carried Away (excerpt)
Choreography and performance: Myrna Packer and Art Bridgman
Music: composed and performed by Glen Velez
Costumes: Liz Prince
Carried Away was made possible in part by a Space Grant from the 92nd St. Harkness
Dance Center, NYC
3. Glen Velez and Lori Cotler
4. Seductive Reasoning
Choreography and performance: Myrna Packer and Art Bridgman
Video: Jim Monroe and Peter Bobrow
Music: Robert Een
Costumes: Liz Prince
Seductive Reasoning was made possible in part through a co-sponsorship with the
School of Contemporary Arts at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
———————Intermission———————
5. Memory Bank (excerpt)
Choreography and performance: Myrna Packer and Art Bridgman
Video: Peter Bobrow
Music: composed and performed by Glen Velez
Set Design: Art Bridgman, Myrna Packer, Peter Bobrow
Costume Consultant: Margaret Auer
Memory Bank is a co-commissioning project of The Bates Dance Festival in
partnership with The Flynn Center for Performing Arts (Burlington, VT) and the
National Performance Network Creation Fund. Memory Bank is also made possible
in part by a commission from Dance New Amsterdam, NYC, and a grant from
the N.E.A.
6. Glen Velez and Lori Cotler
7. Under the Skin
Choreography and performance: Myrna Packer and Art Bridgman
Video: Peter Bobrow and Jim Monroe
Music: Ken Field
Set Design: Bridgman and Packer
Costume Consultant: Margaret Auer Under The Skin is a co-commissioning project of Contemporary Dance Theater (Cincinnati, OH) in partnership with The Dance Place (Washington, D.C.) and the
National Performance Network Creation Fund. The creation of Under The Skin was also supported by funds from the 92nd Street Y New Works in Dance Fund, NYC.
Weather: 78 degrees, warm, humid and cooler as the evening progressed
Attendance:
Rehearsal: 40-60
Performance: 380