Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer have been awarded a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography, based on their "impressive achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment."

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.

Bridgman/Packer Dance has toured throughout the United States appearing at venues including: City Center's Fall For Dance Festival, SpoletoUSA, Lincoln Center, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, ICA Boston, Bates Dance Festival, the Flynn Center and Alabama Dance Festival.  They have performed in festivals throughout Europe, Asia, and Central America.  They are recipients of NEA Grants, NYFA Fellowships, NEFA Expeditions Touring Grant, a NYFA BUILD Grant, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Bridgman and  Packer were featured in Dance Magazine's issue on Great Partnerships.

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