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Megan Bridge

Megan Bridge has been dancing and making dances since 2000. She currently co-directs <fidget>, a platform for her collaborative work with Peter Price. As a choreographer Megan seeks to connect with local, national, and international audiences, making work that is dedicated to a rigorous pursuit of both concept and physicality. Recent works have included A Shadow In the Aeolian Palace (2009) for Group Motion Dance Company, Subject in Two Parts (2008) which she created as a choreographer in residence at the Community Education Center in Philadelphia, Crossings (2007) which was created and premiered in Johannesburg with South African choreographer Mandla Bebeza, Traces Pathways (2007) a commission from Johannesburg-based Walking Gusto Productions, and The Fold (2005), a solo work which toured to Dresden, Berlin, New York, and South Africa.

As a dancer Bridge has worked with international choreographers and companies such as Jerome Bel, Willi Dorner, Rennie Harris, Lenni Basso/Akiko Kitamura, and Carole Brown. In Philadelphia she has worked with many dance companies including Group Motion (as company member from 2000-2005), SCRAP/Myra Bazell, Headlong Dance Theater, Meg Foley/Moving Parts, Daniele Strawmyre/readySetGO, and The Bald Mermaids. Currently a member artist at the Mascher Space Co-op in Philadelphia, Bridge has performed her work in over a dozen different Philadelphia-area venues (such as the Painted Bride, the Live Arts festival, and the Arts Bank). She lives and works in a warehouse space in Kensington (North Philadelphia) called thefidget space with her husband and two year old son.

Megan holds a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase, and teaches Pilates in the Philadelphia area. Her work has been supported by the Independence Foundation (Fellowship in the Arts 2006), the Puffin Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and The Leeway Foundation. With <fidget>, she is included on the Pennsylvania Performing Arts On Tour (Penn-Pat) Roster. In the 2007-2008 season she was the choreographer in residence at the Community Education Center’s New Edge Residency Program in Philadelphia. She has participated in workshops and choreolabs like the Bessie Schoenberg Choreolab at Dance Theater Workshop (2005), FACETS2006 in Bangalore, India, and in Philadelphia with Deborah Hay (2008) and Carol Brown (2005).

E-mail: megan (at) the fidget (dot) org

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