From: New York, USA
Artistic directors: Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer
Genre: Contemporary Dance & Technology
Duration: 75 min
Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, are Artistic Directors of Bridgman|Packer Dance and collaborators in choreography and performance. They are acclaimed for their innovating integration of choreography and video technology that explodes the partnering form into a magically populated stage where image and reality collide. They have received international critical praise for seamlessly melding these two art forms. They are Guggenheim Fellows and in received a 2017 New York Dance and Performance Award for Outstanding Production (The Bessies). Bridgman|Packer Dance has toured extensively throughout the USA, Central America, Europe, Asia, and The Middle East.
After intermission, Remembering What Never Happened explores the relationship between memory and imagination. Each time we have a memory, the brain recreates it, often differently than the last time it was recalled. Two people who remember the same event might remember it differently. In this dance work, each time memories are referenced through movement, text, or video technology, they transform, become more fictional, move further away from the initial telling, and reveal events that may or may not have happened. Bridgman and Packer interact with video projections of their images that morph into digital re-interpretations of the human body, while scenes shot on location in the Mojave Desert transform into surreal landscapes. The work rides the line between the constant and the shifting, the tangible and the subconscious, while exploring the plasticity of memory and experience.
