photo: Kelly Gottesman

Guggenheim Fellows in Choreography, Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer have collaborated as performers and choreographers since 1978. Their innovative work developing "video partnering" — the total integration of live performance and video technology — has been acclaimed for exploding the duet form into a magically populated stage where image and reality collide.

Since 2001, they have been creating their own alchemy of the live and the virtual in works that probe the themes of identity and perception while asking the question: "what is real and what is image?" This has led to their current works, Trilogy and Double Expose, where they enhance the possibilities of dance by multiplying, transposing and manipulating their own life-size video images, and integrating these images into their live performance. Their distinctive use of technology, their sensual partnering, and their surprising humor give the work a physically and theatrically riveting edge.

Bridgman and Packer are the first to have been jointly awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of their collaborative work. They are also recipients of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts ('07, '08, '09, '10), New England Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council for the Arts, USArtists International, Performing Americas Project, National Performance Network, and La Red. They have received two Choreography Fellowships, as well as a BUILD grant, from the New York Foundation for the Arts, three National Performance Network Creation Fund Awards, and commissions from Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, the 92nd Street Y New Works in Dance Fund, and Dance New Amsterdam.

Based in New York City, they have been presented by City Center Fall For Dance Festival, Lincoln Center, The Baryshnikov Arts Center, The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Performance Space 122, Dance New Amsterdam, and Central Park's Summerstage.

They have toured throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Central America, performing in festivals, art centers, and universities including:

• Spoleto Festival USA
• Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
• Munich International Dance Festival
• The Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston
• The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (St. Paul)
• Festival Internacional de Artes Escenicas, Panama
• Aronoff Center for the Arts (Cincinnati)
• Bates Dance Festival
• Kintetsu Theater, Osaka, Japan

Bridgman/Packer have been guest artists at over 100 universities including New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Ohio State University, Arizona State University, and the University of Utah.

Bridgman and Packer were selected as Dance Theater Workshop Digital Fellows. They were highlighted in Dance Magazine's issue on Great Partnerships, and their work in live performance and video technology is featured in the 2009 book "Gegenwelten, Zwischen Differenz und Reflexion" (Against Worlds, Between Difference and Reflection) by Jurgen Schlader and Franziska Weber, published in Munich.

Composers:

photo: Claire Folger

Ken Field (composer/performer for Under the Skin and Double Expose ) is a Boston-based saxophonist, flautist, percussionist, and composer. Since 1988 he has been a member of the internationally acclaimed modern music ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Field also leads the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, an improvisational brass band whose second release, Forked Tongue, was included on best-of-year lists in the Village Voice, the Postimees (Estonia), and ten others. The Ensemble's debut CD, Year of the Snake, was named by influential WNYC music director John Schaefer as one of his top 20 "new sounds" releases of all time. The group has appeared at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Puffin Cultural Forum, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and numerous other venues. Field has performed in the US, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Ireland, and Japan, and has been Composer-in-Residence at the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation (Wyoming), the Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida). His solo releases, including the soundtrack for Under the Skin, document his compositions and improvisations for layered alto saxophones. His recordings have been released on the Cuneiform, O.O.Discs, sFz Recordings, Sublingual, and Innova labels, and have been featured in The New York Times, Saxophone Journal, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and many other publications. Field is a Vandoren Performing Artist. His music is also heard regularly on Sesame Street. www.kenfield.org.

photo: Yoshiko Chuma

Robert Een (composer for Seductive Reasoning) is an acclaimed composer, cellist and singer. The recipient of a 2004 Obie Award for music composition and a 2000 Bessie Award for sustained achievement, Een has performed his music on stages and in unusual venues throughout the world, including the Buddhist caves of Ellora, India; the Shinto shrine in Tsurugi, Japan; a theater above the Arctic circle in Norway; as well as Central Park, Lincoln Center, the Whitney Museum and the Knitting Factory in New York City. Known for his use of extended vocal and cello techniques, he has recorded eight albums: Mystery Dances, Expanding Universe, Fertile Fields, Your Life is Not Your Own, Big Joe , The Rook and Mr. Jealousy soundtracks, and Music from Blue Earth.

His scores for film include; My Horrible Year, Mr. Jealousy, Trouble on the Corner, The Rook, Guts, and the documentaries Misty Isle Out and Carnival Train. Robert Een's music for theater and dance can be heard in the repertories of Liz Lerman, David Dorfman, Yin Mei, Jennifer Muller, Yoshiko Chuma, Sara Pearson/Patrik Widrig, Ron K. Brown and others. As a teacher he has been a guest lecturer and an artist-in-residence at colleges, universities and professional schools around the globe. His long association with Meredith Monk culminated in their evening-legnth performance duet, Facing North. For more information, please visit www.Roberteen.com.

photo: Douglas Dubler

Glen Velez (Composer for Memory Bank and Carried Away) is an internationally recognized frame drummer, composer, scholar and teacher. Velez has created his own musical style inspired by both Western percussion and frame drum performance styles from around the world. A member of the Paul Winter Consort from 1983-1998, and of Steve Reich & Musicians from 1972-1987, Velez's own music has recently been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, John Schaefer's New Sounds, and in feature articles in the New York Times, Village Voice, Christian Science Monitor, and Down Beat Magazine. In addition to ten recordings and several instructional videos under his own name, he has recently recorded with such diverse artists as Pat Methany, Paul Winter, Lyle Mays, Marc Cohn, Suzanne Vega, Glen Moore and Rabih Abou-Khalil on labels such as ECM, CBS, RCA, GRP, Vanguard, Deutsche Gramophone, Geffen, Nonesuch, Capital and Living Music. For more information, please visit his website at www.glenvelez.com.

Technology:

	Peter Bobrow (video collaborator for Seductive Reasoning, Under the Skin, Memory Bank, and Double Expose) is a filmmaker with a background in independent and experimental film. His credits include work for 20th Century Fox, HBO, Forensic Films, the BBC, Discovery Channel and PBS. He has worked on over 25 feature films. Recent projects include directing two seasons of the TV show Project Xtreme, producing the films The Wreck, A Very Serious Person and Building Girl; production managing on the films New York City Serenade and Off The Black and supervising music videos for The Secret Machines and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. www.peterbobrow.com/about
	Jim Monroe (video collaborator for Seductive Reasoning and Under the Skin) is a multimedia producer, director of photography and editor.He has worked in music, theater and television production. He is currently teaching nonlinear video editing at SUNY Rockland and is a certified Apple Trainer. Monroe's company, Act One Video Productions, Ltd., in New City, N.Y.,is a full-service commercial and entertainment, multimedia production company. Act One's services range from scripting to production to post-production. For more information call (845) 634-0312 or visit www.actonedigital.com. (In photo: Jim Monroe during video shoot for Memory Bank)
	Matthias Oostrik (custom software designer for Memory Bank) is the founder of MAGDATT, an interactive video company in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Last year MAGDATT made installations for the Blueman Group, Sharp and the TU Delft. Matthias finished his studies of interactive media at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam in 2004, where he was trained to be a bridge between artist and technology. For the past two years he has worked as a freelancer, making video theatre and video installation productions. As an artist he collaborates with other artists from various disciplines. Matthias is a founding member of Amsterdam Cyber Theatre. www.magdatt.nl

Production:

Frank DenDanto III, lighting and visual designer for the past ten years, received his MFA in Design from NYU's Tisch School. His design credits include Full Circle's Solar Powered at the New Victory Theater, HBO's Reel Sex 24, Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn, and Off-Broadway productions of Blind Alley at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Only You at the Jewish American Theater, and Shadow Box at the Hudson Guild Theater. He has designed for Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, Karen Finely, Tim Miller, Deb Margolin, Ann Magnuson, John Kelly, Holly Hughes, Sarah Michelson, Lava Love, Stacy Dawson, David Neumann and the White Oak Dance Project. Awards for his light installation/sculptures include First Runner Up in Light Forums 98, and a Jerome commission in 2002. His work and designs have been displayed at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, The Museum of Art and Architecture and The New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC. He is co-founder of the not for profit arts support organization, Mother's Milk, based north of NYC, and has constructed a workshop rehearsal space where artists can fully integrate all the components of a new work prior to moving into a rented venue. He has worked with Bridgman/Packer Dance since 1997.

Liz Prince (Costume Designer for Carried Away and Seductive Reasoning.) has designed costumes for the dance companies of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, Doug Varone, Mark Dendy, Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Project and Bebe Miller. Prince's costumes have been exhibited at the New York Public Library of Performing Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris and the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. She is the recipient of a 1990 New York Dance and Performance Award for costume design.

photo: Ellen Feldman

Karen Aqua (Animation for Double Expose) has been making animated films since her graduation from Rhode Island School of Design in 1976. Her award-winning films have screened worldwide, including at the New York Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Starz Denver Film Festival, and at international animation festivals in Zagreb, Hiroshima, Ottawa, and Annecy (France). She has received fellowships from American Film Institute, the MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony for the Arts, Fundación Valparaíso, LEF Foundation, Berkshire Taconic Trust, and the Puffin Foundation. She has presented numerous screenings of her work throughout the United States, and has had one-person exhibitions of her drawings at a number of museums, universities, and art centers. She has served as a juror for major animation and film festivals in Japan, the US, and Canada. In 2005, a special program of Aqua's animated films was presented at the Tehran International Animation Festival, Iran. www.karenaqua.com