Don’t Touch

Interactive and Multimedia Art Exhibition by Boyer College Graduate Music Technology Students

A showcase of interactive, immersive, and performative multimedia artworks blurring the lines between physical and virtual. Explore word games and mythologized pasts— human smoothie simulations and introspective improvisations— meditative visualizations and a razor blade piano. Touch… or maybe don’t.

Preview a work-in-progress of a 2025 Fringe show!

September 12, 7pm

FringeArts

140 North Columbus Blvd

https://phillyfringe.org/events/beautiful-human-lies-chapter-4-work-in-progress-showing/

Rennie Harris and Megan Bridge first worked on a version of this dance in 1999. 25 years later, this new work is a conversation about race, cultural appropriation, privilege, and the passage of time—choreographed by Harris and performed by Bridge.

August 16, 6:30pm and 17th, 1:00 & 2:30pm, catch Megan Bridge and Tristan Price’s performance of Bach’s Cello Suite #2 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art! Saturday’s performances will be followed by an audience reception and chat.

This class will guide students into deep embodiment, heightening perception and using all their senses. Formal dance training is not required, but participants should be comfortable in their bodies and, ideally, have some kind of regular physical practice. Mornings will center on getting embodied through stretching and hands-on bodywork, and in the afternoons we will dance and improvise. 

Fidget co-directors Megan Bridge (dance) and Peter Price (electronic music) will be joined by dancer Lesya Popil. The three will perform an improvisation at a very special iteration of Andrea Clearfield’s salon, dedicated to the memory of Manfred Fischbeck. Megan, Peter, and Lesya were both long time collaborators of Manfred’s and are grateful to participate in this memorial performance.

Fidget is commissioning choreographer Rennie Harris to choreograph a new solo work for Fidget’s co-director, Megan Bridge. Megan and Rennie will be sharing the work in progress at a free, informal showing on Friday, March 15, 6pm, at the Kimmel Center’s Innovation Studio.

Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, our participating scholar on this project, will also be in attendance and will offer questions for reflection at the event.

Register here: https://www.ensembleartsphilly.org/events-and-tickets/2023-24/free/dance-studio-rehearsal-residency/

Support the project here: https://fidget.app.neoncrm.com/donation.jsp?campaign=72&