Bryn Mawr College Goodhart Music Room
Tuesday March 5, 2019 7:30 PM Free admission
The Backyard is a performance piece that was developed in a residency with iconic dance artists, Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson, in summer 2017 and 2018. Performed by Megan Bridge and Beau Hancock, this 45 minute improvised dance proposes a hyper-conscious inhabiting of time, space, and relationship; a radical invitation for intimacy and embodiment. Placing Paxton/Nelson’s work PA RT (1978-2002) at the center of their research, The Backyard exists in a landscape of deep listening and rigorous attention. With music by Robert Ashley, this new work is also a palimpsest of PA RT—an effaced manuscript, written over, but still bearing traces of its original form.
<fidget> has toured The Backyard to Plovdiv, Bulgaria and Lublin, Poland, and has performed in Philadelphia at Temple University, as part of the Philly Fringe Festival, and at The Performance Garage.
A discussion with the artists (and light snacks) follow the performance.
