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Megan Bridge The final performance of the Community Education Center/CEC’s 2007-2008 performance season presents the New Edge Resident Artist in Dance, Megan Bridge in Subject in Two Parts. For this multi-media dance theatre event dancer and choreographer Megan Bridge has assembled a powerful group of collaborators including digital artist Peter Price, director Greg Giovanni, and a quartet of for strong dancers. Megan Bridge has been dancing and creating dances in Philadelphia for eight years. She received a BFA in dance from SUNY, Purchase. Bridge has created more than a dozen multi-media dance works with husband and long time collaborator, musician and video artist, Peter Price. You might remember their Live Arts Festival nuptials entitled “The Wedding” (2003 Philadelphia Fringe). A popular dancer on the local performance scene, Bridge has danced with numerous dance companies and choreographers, including Nichole Canuso, Group Motion, SCRAP/Myra Bazell, Headlong Dance Theater, and Rennie Harris. Over the past few years she has toured extensively with her work, performing in New York, Berlin, Dresden, Johannesburg, Kaunas, and Lithuania. This year, Bridge has settled back into her Philly home and motherhood, after the birth of their 7 month old son. See www.meganbridge.com for complete resume. The New Edge Residency award of substantial rehearsal space has allowed Bridge the opportunity to work intensively with her collaborators creating this evening length work. The two pieces that make up Subject in Two Parts fashion a statement about the nature of identity and the fragmented and slippery effect created by continuous exposure by and to the media. Bridge and fellow dancers evoke figures as diverse as performance artist Carolee Schneeman, the writer William S. Burroughs’ mother, and cultural icon Marilyn Monroe to create a work that is funny, dark, sexy, and smart. Subject: Part I, a solo for Bridge is directed by the renowned theatre artist Greg Giovanni. He has been writing, directing and acting in Philadelphia since 1988. His work spans performance from the creation of the infamous Big Mess Cabaret to his current focus on Noh theatre. In Subject: Part II, Bridge steps out to choreograph and direct a quartet of creative dancers: Meg Foley, John Luna, Lorin Lyle, and Rebecca Sloan. Award winning digital artist Peter Price will add his music and video skills to Subject: Part II. The New Edge Resident Artist in Dance performance with Megan Bridge will be presented Friday and Saturday, May 2-3 at 8PM, and Sunday, May 4 at 3PM. The CEC and Meeting House Theatre are located at 3500 Lancaster Avenue in University City. Admission is $12, $10 for students and seniors. For further information and reservations call 215 387-1911. |
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