Performance: Bridgman/Packer Dance

Because you loved them so much in 2008, Out North commissioned a new dance piece by Bridgman/Packer Dance. On an artistic high from becoming the first duet to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, the two return to Anchorage with what Artistic Director Scott Schofield promises will be "the single coolest show you will see all year."

Choreographer/performers Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, along with a multitude of their video counterparts, blend live camera, animation, and prerecorded urban settings to create multi-layered perspectives and surreal mindscapes amid a highly-charged alchemy of the live and the virtual. "Double Expose" is a fantastical, raucous, sensual exploration of identity, relationship, and the human psyche. In “Under the Skin,” the performers' bodies and costumes become projection screens creating a morphing and redefining of identities and the revealing of hidden psychological depths. Bridgman/Packer are Guggenheim Fellows, and Out North Contemporary Art House commissioned "Double Expose."

"The most thrilling dance work this reviewer has seen in recent memory...flat-out exhilarating."
- The Boston Globe

"in an age overrun with virtual dancing, the team of Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer stands out...by turns, witty, sexy, and surreal." - The New Yorker

Watch a clip: http://bit.ly/BPdiscovery