Bridget is a Director, Choreographer, Movement Director, Writer, Performer Mentor, and Facilitator with 25 years of international experience across dance, theatre, film, digital, and interdisciplinary projects. Bridget engages and partners closely with people and organisations to generate strategies for creativity and empowerment that are specific and meaningful to the people, the context, and the environment the work impacts.

 

From 2012, Bridget played a central role with Belarus Free Theatre, serving as Choreographic, Movement, and Rehearsal Director on several acclaimed, international and touring productions, including ‘Burning Doors’ with Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina, (listed in The New York Times ‘Best Theatre of 2017’ and Off West End ‘Best Ensemble’ Award Winner); the headline VAULT Festival production ‘Counting Sheep: Staging A Revolution’; ‘Trustees’ (Malthouse and Melbourne International Festival); 'Red Forest' (including being an international researcher); and the Total Impact Award-winning ‘Trash Cuisine’, among others.

 

Other projects include: Choreographer and Performer for the Ukrainian feature documentary 'Iron Butterflies', which premiered at Sundance and Berlin International Film Festivals (2023), and won the Docudays ‘RIGHTS NOW!’ Prize; Co-Director, Co-Creator, and Co-Producer of the interdisciplinary multi-modal project 'They Gather', presented to date by venues and festivals including CineKid Medialab, Kaatsbaan, The Place and Chisenhale Dance, Lowry, Rewire International Electronic Music Festival, Modern Body Laboratory, and Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance; Director and Movement Director during the research and development of Keisha Thompson’s play ‘The Bell Curves’; Curatorial Assistant to Cheryl Stock on the large-scale intercultural, international and intermedia project ‘Accented Body’ in the Brisbane International Festival; Co-Director, and Co-Choreographer on projects with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Co-Choreographer on projects with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra; and Associate Director of ‘Sufi In The City’ led by Sarah Sayeed. 

 

Bridget has also created, directed, and choreographed works presented in light festivals such as Illuminating York, galleries such as Whitworth Art Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery, and Manchester Art Gallery, and festivals/programs such as ‘Dance Sampled’ (a Lowry, Sadlers’ Wells, and Birmingham Hippodrome partnership), ‘The Future’ (Rambert and Lowry partnership), Liverpool Biennial, Mintfest, and Urban Moves.

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Bridget’s work also includes directing, choreographing, and leading projects with youth and communities. These range from site-specific works and intergenerational flash mobs to stage productions, films, and large-scale stadium performances. Projects include working with St Martins ('The Word'), Contact Youth Company ('Baby Fever'), STRIDE (a young men’s dance project directed by Company Chameleon with Dance Manchester), Lowry Center for Advanced Training, and Young VIC (Parallel Production), as well as projects such as 'Stellarium' as part of the European City of Science in collaboration with leading British female Astrophysicists, a commission from the EU consortia BeSpectACTIve! for the project 'YES Move. NO Move. (Moved?), and the British Council supported UK-Pakistan collaboration ‘On The Hour: Dance Kahanyan’, among others.

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As a Mentor, Bridget supports artists at different career stages through bespoke one-to-one work, as well as development projects such as Face Festival’s pathways project for emerging Hip Hop Dance Theatre Makers and Phluxus2’s 'IndepenDANCE'. Bridget has delivered artist training with Bangarra Dance Theatre, Manchester Camerata, The Place, Dancenorth Australia, La Boite Theatre’s HWY Festival, Ludus Dance, Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, and Expressions Dance Company (now Australian Dance Collective), among others. Bridget has also worked as a sessional and guest lecturer/facilitator at The Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Roehampton University, Queensland University of Technology, University of Salford, and University of Central Lancashire. 

 

As a performer and collaborator, Bridget has worked with Buzz Dance Theatre (performing works by Paige Gordon, Carol Wellman Kelly, and Felicity Bott), Amy Voris ('perch' adaptation), Joseph Lau (including the TURN Prize-winning 'Abandoned Things'), Cheryl Stock, Hellen Sky, and Sarah Rubidge ('Accented Body', Brisbane International Festival), imitating the dog (touring cast to Cena Brasil Internacional), Louise Deleur, Tarcisio Teatini-Climaco, Kristen Bell, Xanthe Beesely, Wendy Wallace, and Rosetta Cook.

 

Bridget has also worked in advocacy, arts development, producing, curation, fundraising, and, coordination/administration. Her experience includes roles with Contact, Manchester Dance Consortium (Manchester Choreolab 2017), North West Dance Artist Led for Artists Network contributing to Dance Consortia North West, Vanhulle Dance Theatre (Board Member), Dance Manchester, Lowry Centre for Advanced Training, Rio Rhythmics, and Ausdance Queensland. Bridget is a founding Director of the creative house Project Auske.

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Throughout her career, Bridget has received support for her professional development from Arts Council England (Developing Your Creative Practice), Dancenorth Australia A.R.T program, Moving Dance Forward (Dance Manchester, MDI, Lowry, Contact, Unity, and University of Salford), Ian Potter Cultural Trust (training with master Classical Ballet teacher Janet Panetta), Creative Sparks (Brisbane City Council via Arts Queensland), and Australia Council for the Arts (‘Foot in the Door’ Emerging Performers Initiative).

 

Bridget was born and grew up on farms and in small towns in rural Northern Victoria, Australia - places that are on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung People and the Yorta Yorta People. After training with Jacqueline Kornmann and Susan Eacott, gaining creative and teaching leadership experience in her community, and making many trips to Naarm (Melbourne) to develop her skills, Bridget boarded a Greyhound bus in early 1997 and travelled 24 hours to Meeanjin (Brisbane). Here, Bridget completed a Bachelor of Arts (Dance) at Queensland University of Technology, with additional studies in Physical Theatre. In 2001, Bridget returned to full-time study and completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at Queensland University of Technology. During this postgraduate year, Bridget completed a research project and thesis focused on solo performance, working with Nik Hills on the solo ‘Holding The Baby’, Cath Childs on the solo ‘For Lease’, and creating her own solo, ‘In Blood’.

 

Bridget has also completed training in ‘Core Skills in Coaching for Advisors, Mentors, and Teachers’ with Guildhall and is currently working towards accreditation. Bridget has also trained in Arts Awards (Explore, Bronze, and Silver Advisor,) Trauma-informed practices for working with young people in the arts, First Aid at Work, Behaviour Management, and Safeguarding.

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See project and portfolio pages for more information.