Bridget has an accomplished and recognised international portfolio of roles in performance, choreography, teaching/facilitation in community, education and professional contexts as well as producing & dance development (including initiatives prioritising the artist’s voice in strategic sector development). 

 

As an artist Bridget strives to respond to underlying conditions of how we perceive, experience & cohabitate in the world: engaging with what is challenging & what is wonderful.  19 years in contemporary dance & interdisciplinary collaboration, in Australia, the UK, Europe and internationally, has reflected this philosophy and has defined responsiveness, embodied considerations, shared experience, discourse and rigour as central to Bridget's practice. These interests have opened opportunities for Bridget's artistic work to tackle a broad range of subjects including: urgent human rights issues, cultural identification and tensions and areas of scientific research. As a consequence, each work/project reveals unique processes and sensibilities that emerge from a desire to: be authentic to the subject matter and context, and engage with audiences and participants on kinaesthetic, conceptual, imaginative, social and emotional levels.

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CHOREOGRAPHY / DIRECTION / PERFORMANCE

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Co-creator/Choreographer/Director & Producer of 'They Gather' an international, interdisciplinary and multimodal independent project recently presented at Supercell Festival Of Contemporary Dance (Brisbane, Australia) 2019. Further development and presentation in 2019 and 2020.

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Choreographic and Rehearsal Director on 'Counting Sheep: Staging A Revolution' at the VAULT Festival (London) 2019. 

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Movement Director on 'Trustees' a Malthouse Theatre and Melbourne International Arts Festival production and directed by Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin (Belarus Free Theatre). 

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Choreographic, movement and rehearsal director with Belarus Free Theatre, collaborating and working on international touring productions: ‘Burning Doors', (winner 2016 ‘Best Ensemble’ Off West End Awards and listed in the New York Times 'Best Theatre of 2017'), ‘Trash Cuisine’, (winner 2013 Impacto Totale Award), ‘Red Forest’, (including undertaking research in Bangladesh, India, Nigeria and Australia on the impacts of man-made and environmental disaster on vulnerable communities) and a Young Vic parallel production.

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Bridget's work reaches a breadth of audiences internationally at festivals, in galleries & museums, in public spaces, at major events and in venues including: 'Because Of Gravity' for The Future a partnership between Rambert and The Lowry, 'The Body Of Us' a major new project developing performance and engagement activity presented at festivals in the UK (Dance: Sampled) and Australia, several projects as a collaborating co-founder, choreographer & performer with new music and dance collective Out of the Blue Productions including projects in partnership with BBC Philharmonic and eu-art-network as well as works/projects in Manchester Day, Rugby League Magic Weekend, Manchester International Women's Festival, moves - International Festival Of Movement On Screen, Liverpool Biennal, Illuminating York, Supercell Festival Of Contemporary Dance and many more
 

As a performer working with other artists Bridget has: worked on Cheryl Stock’s international, intercultural and interdisciplinary project ‘Accented Body’ (presented 2006 Brisbane International Festival), been a company dancer with Australia's premier company making work for children and young people as audience Buzz Dance Theatre performing works by Paige Gordon, Carol Wellman Kelly and Felicity Bott, performed the role of 'Weird Woman' as part of touring cast of imitating the dog's 'Hotel Methuselah'  to Cena Brasil Internacional, Rio de Janeiro, as well as research projects and performance works by Rosetta Cook, Joseph Lau (including the 2010 TURN Prize-winning work 'Abandoned Things'), Xanthe Beesley, Tarcisio Teatini-Climaco and Louise Deleur.