Food for Thought Fridays is a virtual series of conversations initiated by one of our administrative assistants, Mijkalena Smith. Posted on Fridays, we hear from Megan, Peter, and other Fidget friends about what's been on their mind in regards to their work, their life, and the world!! They are in the form of mini-podcast episodes.

April 9, 2021
Megan Bridge and Rhonda Moore on Archive
This week’s Food for Thought Friday features Fidget co-director, Megan Bridge, and Rhonda Moore. Megan and Rhonda chatted about Rhonda’s experience getting ready for her Fidget Forum- and touch on the emotional side effects of revisiting ones past…

March 19, 2021
Megan Bridge and Katherine Desimine on the Divine Feminine
It’s been awhile since we posted a Food for Thought Friday, but Megan and Katherine really felt like sitting down this week to chat about our event TOMORROW (3/20) with Forbidden Fruit- Equinox: A celebration of the Divine Feminine. Specifically, Katherine was curious about how Megan connects to the theme of the event, the divine feminine, in her work as a dancer and choreographer. We hope you enjoy this short chat that weaves femininity and the divine feminine in with the performance/audience relationship, the Male Gaze, burlesque performance modes, the body as a sacred site… 

Transcript here.

February 5, 2021
Megan Bridge and Peter Price on The Fold
This installation of Food For Thought Friday has 2 parts. Part 1 is an excerpt from Fidget’s piece The Fold, a piece created in 2005 and 2006 by Megan (choreographer and performance) and Peter (sound and music design.) This week Megan and Peter watched this excerpt of The Fold (from a performance in 2006 at Dock 11 in Berlin), and in part 2 they discuss it.

Transcript here.

January , 2020
Megan Bridge and Katherine Desimine on Touch
This week Megan and Katherine dove into a conversation about touch and lack of touch during this pandemic, how dance can comment on these ideas, consent and agency in how we physically relate to each other, consent and agency in the context of audience participation during performance work, and more.

Note: Towards the end, Katherine mentions a piece by choreographer Yasmeen Godder that she couldn’t remember the name of. That piece is called ‘Simple Action’.

December 4, 2020
Megan Bridge and Katherine Desimine on Touch
This week Megan and Katherine dove into a conversation about touch and lack of touch during this pandemic, how dance can comment on these ideas, consent and agency in how we physically relate to each other, consent and agency in the context of audience participation during performance work, and more.

Note: Towards the end, Katherine mentions a piece by choreographer Yasmeen Godder that she couldn’t remember the name of. That piece is called ‘Simple Action’.

November 13, 2020

Megan (Fidget co-director) and Katherine (Fidget administrator) had a convo about Friday’s presentation of Fidget’s newest work/Megan’s MFA thesis project: The Alt.terre. Megan and Katherine touched on translating materiality and sensation to film, 4D movies, and “Fall; or, Dodge in Hell” (a speculative fiction novel by Neal Stephenson aka Megan’s Favorite Author). Check it out on this weeks iteration of Food For Thought Friday.

Note from Katherine: “As I was re-listening to this convo, I heard Megan say the word phenomenological. I thought it might be nice to give a definition because that is a BIG word and I personally don’t feel like its commonly used. I believe in the context Megan was using it, the definition is: “denoting or relating to an approach that concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience”.

October 23, 2020

On our first episode of Fidget’s new program Food For Thought Fridays, Fidget Co-Director Megan Bridge discusses Fidget’s latest work The Alt.terre. Listen to hear Bridge’s insight on transitioning the work from live performance to a virtual platform. Audio: excerpts from a conversation with Megan Bridge and Katherine Desimine.