{"id":40802228310,"date":"2019-10-30T11:47:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/?p=40802228310"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:54:06","slug":"nighthawks-at-the-dance-barre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/nighthawks-at-the-dance-barre\/","title":{"rendered":"NightHawks at the Dance Barre"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Center for the Arts at\u00a0Monmouth University<\/strong> has announced that tickets are now on sale for a November 15, 2019 appearance by the Bridgman\/Packer Dance<\/strong> troupe, in a presentation of \u201cVoyeur<\/strong>\u201d (recipient of the 2017 Bessie Award) and other works from their repertoire.<\/p>\n

Scheduled for 8 pm inside the Pollak Theatre<\/strong>, the one-night engagement showcases the recently expanded capabilities of Monmouth\u2019s flagship performance space, with an exclusive New Jersey performance of a work that pairs expressive contemporary dance with video images suggested by the paintings of Edward Hopper.<\/p>\n

The twentieth-century American master best known for such scenes as \u201cEarly Sunday Morning\u201d and the iconic \u201cNighthawks\u201d inspired the unique visual dynamic of \u201cVoyeur<\/strong>,\u201d a performance piece that has been acclaimed as \u201cwitty, sexy and surreal\u201d by the New Yorker. Utilizing the set components and projections that have become a signature hallmark of their celebrated collaboration, choreographers Art Bridgman\u00a0<\/strong>and Myrna Packer<\/strong> bring the denizens of Hopper\u2019s urban and rural milieus to animated life, in a \u201cvideo partnering\u201d fusion of human movement, sound, and the intimate quiet drama that was so skillfully captured by the painter\u2019s journalistic eye.<\/p>\n

In Hopper\u2019s world, the silent people who haunt the apartment houses, movie shows and restaurants of those city streets share a kinship with the isolated buildings and filling stations that stand stark in the sun against empty highways, big skies and flat seas. Framed within windows and doorways like exhibits in a living museum, they are figures viewed at a distance, with the viewer left to conjure their inner lives, and the backstories that led them to this place of strong light and long shadows.<\/p>\n

Together with the dancers of the New York City-based company that bears their names, Bridgman and Packer explore those stories in a way that \u201cbears witness to fragmented moments of private lives.\u201d The two Guggenheim fellow choreographers, who marked the fortieth anniversary of their professional partnership in 2018, have teamed with filmmaker Peter Bobrow to enhance the audience\u2019s role through the addition of live cameras on stage. Conjuring \u201cmultiple perspectives as the performers merge and collide with the video imagery\u201d \u2014 and placing the action within and against the windows, walls, and doors of a shifting multi-paneled set \u2014 the artists have created an experience that adapts to performance spaces of all shapes and sizes, and that locates the \u201cvoyeur\u201d within each of us.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the November 15 appearance by Bridgman\/Packer Dance <\/strong><\/em>are priced at $35-$50, with reservations made through the Monmouth University Performing Arts Box Office at 732-263-6889, or online at www.monmouth.edu\/MCA<\/a>. Tickets for other upcoming Performing Arts events \u2014 including On A Winter\u2019s Night with Christine Lavin, John Gorka, Patty Larkin, Cheryl Wheeler, and Cliff Eberhardt\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(November 16) \u2014 are also available now. To schedule interviews, please contact Kelly Barratt at 732-263-5114.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Center for the Arts at\u00a0Monmouth University has announced that tickets are now on sale for a November 15, 2019 appearance by the Bridgman\/Packer Dance troupe, in a presentation of \u201cVoyeur\u201d (recipient of the 2017 Bessie Award) and other works from their repertoire. Scheduled for 8 pm inside the Pollak Theatre, the one-night engagement showcases […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":40802228312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40802228310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-center-for-the-arts"],"subheadline":"The paintings of Hopper inspire the artistry of Bridgman Packer Dance","youtube":"","thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2019\/10\/thumbnail-1.jpg","gallery":null,"featured_img":"\"\"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802228310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802228310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802228310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802229719,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802228310\/revisions\/40802229719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802228312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802228310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802228310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802228310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}