Megan Bridge- Co-Director
megan@thefidget.org

Megan Bridge is a performer, choreographer, dance scholar, educator and writer based in Philadelphia, USA. Her most recent choreographies premiered at The Philadelphia Museum of Art (The Bach Cello Suites Project, 2023 and enclosure...wellspring...retreat, 2019) and FringeArts (Sp3, 2018) in Philadelphia, and her solo performance works have taken her on tour in Austria, Bulgaria, Colombia, France, Germany, Georgia, Macedonia, Poland, South Africa, & Switzerland. In 2013 she was named “Best of Philly” for stage performance by Philadelphia Magazine. With composer, designer, and musicologist Peter Price, she is the co-director of Fidget, an experimental performance group & warehouse art-space in Kensington, North Philadelphia. 

Bridge holds a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase, and an MFA in dance from Temple University. She currently teaches in the dance department at Temple University in Philadelphia, and has taught recently on tour in Poland, France, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her teaching practice is focused on improvisation and contemporary dance technique, and she is particularly interested in the historical lineages and discursive frameworks that situate her work. She teaches creative process and composition, as well as bodywork classes incorporating Pilates and a variety of somatic embodiment techniques. She loves bringing philosophical inquiry into the studio, and recently her ideas have been in conversation with philosopher Erin Manning, affect theory, concepts of presence, and altered states of consciousness. She has studied with Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Deborah Hay, Merian Soto, Manfred Fischbeck, Brigitta Herrmann, Rennie Harris, André Lepecki, and Neil Greenberg.

Bridge has performed in the work of choreographers Jerome Bel, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, Susan Rethorst, Willi Dorner, and with Group Motion Dance Company and Headlong Dance Theater in Philadelphia. In 2020 she staged Jerome Bel’s work Gala at the Miami Institute of Contemporary Art, and in 2022 she performed the US premiere of Bel’s 2021 work, Jérôme Bel. In  2016 she was rehearsal assistant to David Gordon for a project in Philadelphia, and from 2011-2013 she worked on a reconstruction of Lucinda Childs’ early minimalist works. She has received funding support from USArtists International, The Network of Ensemble Theaters, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, American Dance Abroad, and more. 

She has published articles in Dance Magazine, Pointe Magazine, The Dance Chronicle, and at thINKingDANCE.net, where she also served as an editor and as Executive Director from 2014-2016.